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Tanisha Mitchell's love of music enabled her to connect two roles, as curator and consultant for the Metropolitan Opera Music Library and reference librarian and performing arts coordinator for the Freeport Public Library (FPL), NY, where she brings rich classical music programming to a popular audience.
Mitchell, a 2013 LJ Mover & Shaker, always knew she wanted to be involved with opera and libraries—she sings, and originally envisioned herself working in a conservatory library. When she got her MLS at Queens College in 2010, an internship doing archival work at the Metropolitan Opera Music Library turned into a part-time special projects position. Since then she has been helping catalogue the Metropolitan's extensive collection of performance notes dating back to the 19th century, and using that access to develop a series of public talks, "Opera: Steps to the Stage," to engage the general population with opera and classical music, and serving as a guest speaker for the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Opera Outlook series.