Susanna Reichling represented Missouri State University at two music conferences in May 2025. The 59^thAnnual ARSC Conference (The Association for Recorded Sound Collections) was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma from May 14-17. The four-day event included multiple sessions on the recorded music and digitization/preservation activities in the Midwest United States region (particularly Oklahoma) and some behind-the-scenes tours of Tulsa music archives, recording studios, and museums. An international slate of music archivists, researchers, and collectors — presenting their research on individual musicians and record labels —  included representatives from The New York Public Library, The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, The Hawai’i State Archives, The National Museum of the Czech Republic, and Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

On May 9^th, Susanna shared some of her own archival sound collection at the Music Library Association, Mountain-Plains Chapter meeting in Lawrence, Kansas. Her one-hour multimedia presentation, “Uncovering A Treasure In The Dust: The Rewards Of Hunting Down Local Sound Recordings,” focused on the varieties of Ozarks musicking from the 1920s to the present time and included excerpts from recordings by Fiddlin’ Sam Long (1926), The Springfield Boy Scout Band (1927), Doc Dasher (1950s), Lou Whitney (1969), Sneak Preview (1984), and a recently-acquired LP of folk ballads from Max Hunter and John O’Bryant. This presentation has been selected to move on to the Music Library Association’s “Best of Chapters Competition” for 2026.