A celebration of women in jazz
A celebration of Women in Jazz
A new free exhibition at Barbican Music Library entitled Women in Jazz – a Celebration of...
New Licence for Performing and Playing Music in Public
These days library spaces are used for all manner of events, many of which will involve the live performance of music or the playing of sound recordings.
Both of these activities require a form of licence. Collective management organisations exist in order that music users don’t need to...
The National Brass Band Archive
Hello Music Librarians! I am writing to you today from BBE’s HQ in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. We’ve had a bit of a hectic couple of months of late, not least because in May we...
The Hybrid Music Library: User format preferences at Leeds College of Music Library
Megan Dyson
This post is a brief synopsis of my presentation at this year's ASW on my MA dissertation research on the hybrid music library. The ‘hybrid library’ is defined as a library...
Advocacy for music services
Advocacy for music services...
Making Music 2018
Music librarians across the country took part in Make Music Day 2018 , on Thursday June 21st. These were just a few of the celebrations....
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These are competitive times
As I ease myself into my harness as IAML (UK & Irl)’s Performance Set officer, I thought I’d share some things I’ve been chewing over about the various forms of competition there are to the services we offer.
Here in Birmingham, we’re quite new to charging for performance sets,...
A rare glimpse behind the scenes at Abbey Road Studios
Barbican Music Library’s current exhibition is the result of a collaboration with Abbey Road Studios and acclaimed rock photographer, Jill Furmanovsky, who has been closely associated with the Studios for over four decades. Inside Abbey Road Studios: Through the Lens of Jill Furmanovsky...
Libraries Reaching out to Distance Learners
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...
A (insert collective noun here) of music librarians
I spent part of the Easter holidays in beautiful Edinburgh attending the annual IAML (pronounced Yam-ull, rhymes with camel) Annual Study Weekend. The UK and...
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