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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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