2018 "San Francisco Bound Volumes: An Index of Musical Culture in the West." Music Library Association, Portland, Oregon, 2 February 2018.
2017 "Twenty Years after Gutenberg: The Invention of Music Printing." UC Berkeley Kosmos Club, 6 November 2017.
2015 "Ecclesiastical Patronage of Early Music Printing." Good Impressions: The First Century of Music Printing and Publishing. University of Salzburg, 13 July 2015.
2015 "Coping with Blank Space for Music in Incunables." Reading Copy-Specific Features: Producers and Owners of Incunabula, 30 June-1 July 2016. De Montfort University, Leicester, England.
2014 "Volvelles." 14 January, 2014. Colophon Club, Women's City Club, Berkeley.
2014 "The Civil War in California Sheet Music." Music Library Association, 8 Feburary 2014. Atlanta, Georgia.
2013 " The Beginning of Music Printing in the 15th Century. "Fredric W. Goudy Lecture, 9 February 2013. Scripps College, Pasadena, CA.
2013 "The First Printed Sons and Evidence on Who Sang Them." Humanities Club, 13 November 2013. Women's Faculty Club, Berkeley.
2010 "Printing Music in the Fifteenth Century." Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 21 September 2010. University Club, San Francisco.
2007 "National and International Politics in Nineteenth-Century California Sheet Music." Music Library Association, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2.
2007 "Fifteenth-Century Music Printing: Reform Uniformitas, and Local Tradition." Niveau Nische Nimbus: 500 Jahre Musikdruck nördlich der Alpen. Institut für Musikwissenschaft de Universität Wien. Vienna, Austria, January 19.
2005 "Treasures from the McCune Collection Vault: The Incunabula." McCune Collection, Vallejo Public Library. Vallejo, CA, February 12.
2005 "California Sheet Music and Cultural History." Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA. April 14.
2004 "Music Incunabula in Northern Lands: The Creation of National Identity." Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft in den Inkunabeln. Hundert Jahre Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Internationale Tagung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz. November 27.
2004 "Music Engraving and Tools." Music Library Association, Northern California Chapter. Berkeley, CA. November 12.
2004 "The Fifteenth-Century Printed Psalter: Between Manuscript and Print." Medieval Manuscript Seminar, The Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of London. January 29.
2003 "Some Observations on Music Incunabula from German-Speaking Lands." The Bibliographical Society, University of London. November 25.
2003 "An Early Printed Book Illuminated from Stencils." Early Book Society, Durham, England. July 7.
2002 "The Sequence as a Key to Fifteenth-Century Litugical Reform." International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, August 5.
2002 "Books of Hours: Devotional and Didactic." Symposium: The Culture of Books: Birth and Transformations of the Reade from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Modern Period. France Berkeley Fund, UC Berkeley, April 13.
2001 "California Sheet Music and Cultural History." Oakland Museum, Dec. 13.
2001 "Readers and the Liturgy: Reform 1450-1550." Reformation Workshop, UC Berkeley and GTU, Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union, November 4.
2000 "Reading the liturgy: From clergy and religious to the lay reader." Incunabula and Their Readers. Organised by the British Library and Institutes of the University of London's School of Advanced Study. London, England, Dec. 2.
2000 "Politics and Text: Bringing the Liturgy to Print." SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing). Mainz, Germany. July 4. Abstract
2000 "High Resolution Images in the Classroom." Summer Faculty Technology Program, University of California, Berkeley. June 6.
1999 "Test Bed: A Virtual Library of 19th-Century Sheet Music." Abstract. Workshop on Music Information Retrieval. Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Berkeley, CA. August 19, Workshop on Music Information Retrieval.
1999 "IAML Music Catalogs: Sample Searches Comparing Access." International Association of Music Libraries. Wellington, New Zealand. July 19.
1998 "Text and Power at the Invention of Printing: Liturgy as a Case Study." Northern California Renaissance Conference. Berkeley, CA. April 25.
1998 "A Virtual Library of Sheet Music (19th-Century California)." Archives Roundtable, Music Library Association. Boston, MA. February 12.
1998 "Deep Description: Nineteenth-Century California Sheet Music." Music Library Association. Boston, MA. February 12, 1998.
1997 "Managing Music Web Sites." International Association of Music Libraries. Geneva, Switzerland. September.
1997 "The Sequence in the Canon." Medieval Association of the Pacific. Honolulu, Hawaii. March.
1997 "Scribal Culture Dictates Technology: Scribal Process in Metal." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May. Illustrations.
1997 "Reading for Progress." 28 June 1997. Library History Round Table, American Library Association. San Francisco.
1996 "The Changing Roles of Information Professionals in the Electronic Information Environment." Japan-U.S. Library Conference, Sept. 11, 1996. Tokyo.
1996 "How Do Exhibits Work on the World Wide Web?" 13 February 1996. Colophon Club, San Francisco.
1995 "Creating a Web Site with Sound." 19 June 1995. International Association of Music Libraries. Helsingo\*:r.
1994 "Document Delivery and Copyright." 25 October 1994. Online. San Francisco.
1994 "Trends in the Description of Music." Rare Books and Manuscripts, American Library Association, Miami Beach, 21-24 June 1994
1994 "Misunderstood Margins: Books of Hours and Readers." 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5-7 May 1994
1993 "Using Music CD-ROMs." International Association of Music Libraries. Helsinki, Norway. 9-13 August 1993.
1993 "The Design of the Early Printed Missal." Ways of Looking: Production and Presentation of Books and MSS, 1300-1500. 11-15 July 1993. Early Book Society. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England.
1993 "The Early German Liturgical Psalter." Seminar on the Early Book. Oxford University, Oxford, England. 7 March 1993.
1993 Organized and chaired session "Multimedia Databases and History." Association of Library and Information Science Educators. 5-8 January 1993.
1992 "Music in Very Large Databases (OCLC, RLIN, Melvyl)." International Association of Music Libraries. Frankfurt/Main, Germany. 7-11 September 1992.
1991 "Use of the 15th-century Printed Psalter." 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11, 1991, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
1991 "Access to Sound and Image Databases." American Society for Information Science, April 28, 1991, Santa Clara, California. Repeated as Wilson Library Lecture, May 17, 1991, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
1991 "The Future for Computerized Music Printing." Music Library Association, February 12-15, 1991, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1990 "Local Area Networks. Networking CD-ROMs." California Academic and Research Librarians, Nov. 16, 1990, University of California, Berkeley.
1990 "Music in Today's Interdisciplinary Information- Retrieval Environment." College Music Society Conference, October 27-28, 1990, Washington, DC.
1990 "Multimedia Databases for Public Service in Music." International Association for Music Libraries, July 9-13, 1990, Paris, France.
1990 "Copyright of Electronic Information and Patterns of Research Today." American Library Association, June 23-28, 1990, Chicago, Illinois.
1990 "Van der Weyden's Sacraments: An Agenda for Early Printing." 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13, 1990, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
1990 Colloquium on Preservation Issues in Medieval Studies. March 25-26, 1990. University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
1990 "Multimedia Catalogs in the Music Library? The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog on CD-ROM." MOUG Meeting, Music Library Association, February 20, 1990, Tucson, Arizona.
1989 "CD-ROM for Reference: Making the Electronic Library Work for Users." CD-ROM in the Library: Today and Tomorrow, Conference, Aug. 17-18, 1989, University of California, Berkeley.
1989 "Another Scenario for the Beginning of Printing." Imagining New Worlds: Factual and Figural Discovery during the Middle Ages. A Conference held at Lehman College, The City University of New York, May 12-14, 1989.
1989 "The Fifteenth-Century Printed Psalter in the North: Design Change on the Way to the Reformation." 24th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 4-7, 1989.
1989 "Building a Core Collection of CD-ROM Information Systems: A Systematic Approach." 4th Annual Computers in Libraries Conference, Oakland, March 14-16, 1989.
1988 "Music on CD-ROM: Today's Databases and Tomorrow's Reference Books." International Association of Music Libraries, Tokyo, September, l988.
1988 "Deadends and Open Doors." Music Library Association (February, Minneapolis, Minnesota).
1987 "CD-ROM: The User's Viewpoint." WESTPAC (Western Pacific Chapter, American Association of Law Librarians, Seattle, October 24, 1987.
1987 "User Reaction to CD-ROM Searching." ASIS Mid-Year, King's Island, Ohio, May 18-20, 1987.
1987 "The First Printed Missal: A New Issue." Twenty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 1987.
1987 "ERIC on Dialog and OCLC CD-ROMs." MicroSolutions in Library Service. San Jose, May 27-28, Long Beach, June 1-2, 1987.
1986 "Online Reference for Music Librarians." International Association for Music Libraries, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 11, 1986.
l986 "Clerical Latin Literacy and the Market for Liturgical Incunabula." Twenty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 1986.
l986 "The History of the Book: From Incunabula to Computer Typesetting." LAUC, University of California at Davis, Feb. 1986.
1985 "A Newly-Discovered First Issue of the First Printed Missal." Newberry Library, Chicago. January.
1985 "From Manuscript to Print: The Missal in Italy." Twentieth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich. May.
1985 "Looking for Incunabula in European Libraries." Music Library Association, Northern California Chapter.
1984 "Fifteenth-Century Music Types in Italy." Music Library Association (February, Austin, Texas). Repeated at the University of Chicago, April, 1984.
1983 "The Second Dated Book of Printed Music, the 1477 Gradual." American Musicological Society (Lexington, Kentucky).
1983 Commentator. "Soviet Book Studies." Center for Slavic and East European Studies, UCB.
1982 "Music Iconography Update." Music Library Association, Northern California Chapter.
1982 "Early Music Printing." Music Library Association, Northern California Chapter.
1981 "Teaching New Formats: Online and Fiche." Music Library Association, Pre-Conference, Los Angeles.
1981 "Book Design Through the Ages." Women's National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter.
1981 "San Francisco Music Printing." American Musicological Society, Northern California Chapter.
1976 "Queen Joanna and Her Musicians." American Musicological Society, Joint California Chapters (prize, best student paper).