IAML (UK & Irl) is seeking members to serve on the Executive Committee of the branch for 2023/24. We would welcome nominations from colleagues working in any area of the profession. The Committee holds three meetings during the year and these are normally on a Wednesday afternoon in May (in person in London – travel…
For music librarians, a live online event from Cambridge, UK. Find out more about music in Cambridge University Library and the Pendlebury Library.
A IAML colleague with their finger on the pulse, has alerted us to this forthcoming event:- Henle Urtext Editions are holding an online Open Day this Thursday, 23 March. It looks to be a very full and interesting programme. If you’re interested, you can register at: Henle Open Day (vfairs.com) The various sessions are being…
The Music Libraries Trust is now accepting applications for bursaries to attend the Cambridge 2023 IAML international congress, including funds from the Ian Ledsham bursary. This year’s IAML International Congress in Cambridge will be held from 30 July to 4 August. See the conference website for more information and booking details. As the IAML International Congress is being…
Are you an excellent music librarian, and a member of the UK & Ireland branch of IAML? A gentle reminder that nominations for the 2023 Excellence Awards need to be submitted by 31 January. If you have already submitted your nomination and have received your self-assessment form, these need to be returned by 31 March….
As most UK & Ireland Branch members will know, we are actually part of a larger international organisation, the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. They publish Fontes, which is IAML’s international journal. If you are professionally ambitious, and/or aspire to international recognition, then Fontes is one of the key publications in our…
IAML supports the statement about music rights in Afghanistan, formulated by the International Music Council – please, see below. The declaration has recently been published on our website, among IAML’s policy statements and is in line with our endorsement of the Five Music Rights, first proclaimed by the International Music Council in 2001. IMC Statement about music rights…
Barbican Music Library’s current exhibition, Black British Dynasties in Music: A FamilyAffair, celebrates the enormous contribution made by Black British musical families to theUK’s musical and cultural scene. It is curated by the Black Music Coalition which representsBlack music executives and professionals, and was established in 2020 to challenge andraise awareness of racism affecting Black…
Mather Brown – Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges, 1787 Despite having worked in music libraries for quite a few years, it still seems that rarely a week goes by in which I don’t come across a composer I’ve never heard of before. Recently, that composer was Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who caught my eye not…
As you may know, our international organisation (‘big IAML’) is meeting in Prague this week, 24-30 July 2022. Conference Schedule – click here. If you’re curious to know what’s going on, do follow the Twitter hashtag, #IAML2022, and make sure you follow both ‘big’ IAML’s and our own Twitter accounts:- @IAML_AIBM and @IAML_UK_IRL Now is…
We are very pleased to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, and welcome the opportunity to work more closely together. We look forward a fruitful collaboration with CILIP, as we work to preserve and make available the rich musical heritage in our libraries. IAML(UK & Irl)…
IAML(UK & Irl) are delighted to share the two citations for the winners of the 2020 and 2021 awards. 2020: Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers and John Wallace Herbert, Trevor, Myers, Arnold, & Wallace, John (eds). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). ISBN: 978-1-10718-000-0 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments is the first major…
As music librarians, it goes without saying that we are specialists in terms of what goes into music libraries – and that embraces not only music, but books about it as well. The C. B. Oldman Award is a long-standing and prestigious award celebrating the best of today’s writers about music. This year we have…
Refreshed service on a new platform IAML(UK & Ireland)’s Documentation Committee Chair, Caroline Shaw, tells us about an exciting new platform to help orchestral and choral organisations locate performing materials via UK libraries. The Encore21 Migration project Working Group is delighted to announce the launch of the refreshed Encore21 service. Encore21 is the UK’s union…
At this year’s IAML UK and Ireland Annual Study Weekend, I agreed to offer a ‘quick-fire’ session about a project that I carried out in 2017, investigating the provision of library instruction and support to distance-learners. It’s something I undertook as part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Arts Education, through…