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News from CILIP

23. December 2019

Earlier this year CILIP announced the launch of the "...

Don't miss the Public Libraries Seminar

6. August 2019

Loxley House, Nottingham

The 2019 Music in Public Libraries Seminar will take place on Friday 27th September from 1pm to 4.30pm in the ground floor Committee Room of Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, close to Nottingham railway station and the city centre.

Nottingham is easy to reach by public transport from many areas of the UK.

The seminar is primarily intended for library staff who work with music, in all its aspects, in a public library setting for some...

Make Music Day 2019

8. January 2019

Courtesy of an email to the IAML list - exciting plans for this year's Make Music Day. Mark it in your diary now....

Dear All,

We have spent the autumn reflecting on what a brilliant Make Music Day took place this summer and thinking ahead to next year. We’re doing a road trip round the UK after Christmas to tell more people about Make Music Day and bring everyone together to start planning for June 2019. If you'd like to get involved in Make Music...

Bursaries available for 2019 IAML (UK & Irl) ASW

5. December 2018

As many of you are aware, IAML (UK & Irl) will be holding their Annual Study Weekend this year, 12-14 April 2019 at the University of Leicester College Court. The Music Libraries Trust is pleased to award a limited number of bursaries to students and library staff who would like to attend the ASW. Priority is given to those who would otherwise be unable to attend and who have no other sources of funding. Both full and part bursaries are available, which...

Advocacy for music services

13. July 2018

Advocacy for music services

The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that to advocate means to support,...

Your IAML branch needs you!

13. November 2017

The current Treasurer and General Secretary of IAML (UK & Irl) are due to end their terms of office at the AGM in Edinburgh on 7 April 2018. Both posts are now advertised in the Vacancies section of the website ( http://iaml-uk-irl.org/vacancies ), where you will find job descriptions and contact details if you wish to apply or seek further information.

These senior positions in IAML (UK & Irl)...

Making Music

15. June 2017

Music libraries and institutions across the country are going to be busy for the next few weeks with BBC Music Day 2017 today (June 15th), and "Make Music Day" next week on Wednesday 21st June.

As part of BBC Music Day, in Cambridgeshire English Pocket Opera performed on a punt, and a blue plaque commemorating Syd Barrett, founder member of Pink Floyd, went up on the former Cambridge School of Art (now Anglia Ruskin...

Your orchestra needs you!

25. January 2017
Geoff Thomason

One of the things we can be justly proud of is our rich culture of amateur orchestras and choral societies. From the smallest villages to the largest cities, these bring music to audiences throughout the year. Where do they source their performance material? From music libraries! And how do we value our music libraries? Well, to judge by the activities of too many local authorities, very little or not at all.

Many of us play or sing...

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