My diary tells me that Friday 17th April should have been the first day of the 2020 Annual Study Weekend in Leeds. Planning for the conference had taken more than a year and at the last Conference Committee meeting held on March 11th most of the final details were in place and the committee was…
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IAML ANNUAL STUDY WEEKEND – THOUGHTS FROM LEICESTER
On a sunny Friday afternoon, Kate and I set off from Cambridge for College Court, Leicester for the IAML Annual Study Weekend. It was a great chance to meet other colleagues working in music libraries and to put some faces to names. After settling in to our rooms in College Court – a purpose built…
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President’s Report
It is hard to believe that my term of office as President will come to an end at the Annual General Meeting at the beginning of April 2016. The time seems to have flown by at an incredible speed. However, the Branch has done a huge amount and I thought it might be a good…
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Countdown to Christmas – Day 1
Christmas at the Royal Academy of Music. “Here’s one I made earlier”. Rebecca Nye created this natty Christmas tree from a used Vistaflex roll and green paper tape.
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Music Libraries Trust ASW Bursary Winners 2014
The Music Libraries Trust was pleased to award nine full and part bursaries to enable winners to attend the recent IAML (UK & Irl) Annual Study Weekend held 11-13 April 2014 at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. The aim of the MLT is to support and fund the education and training of music librarians in the UK…
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IAML(UK & Irl) celebrates Excellence
IAML (UK & Irl) celebrated both institutional and individual Excellence in its recent Excellence Awards ceremony held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge on Saturday April 12th 2014. The Excellence Awards are presented every two years and acknowledge activity in music libraries which demonstrates sustained good work and good practice with the potential to be adopted…
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At the event: the IAML(UK & Irl) Jubilee reception
Picture the scene: a gathering of the glitterati of the music library world together with many honoured guests all assembled at the Foundling Museum under the watchful-yet-kindly eye of Handel. A harmonious hubbub, a concerto of chatter, a chorus of celebration…Why? Because on October 22nd 2013, the United Kingdom and Ireland Branch of IAML celebrated…
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IAML(UK & Irl) Diamond Jubilee: founding fathers
This year, the United Kingdom and Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (to give it its full name) celebrates its Diamond Jubilee
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Welcome
Welcome to the IAML (UK & Irl) blog. We now have yet another way of sharing all our exciting news! In addition to publishing our Newsletter and having news on the webpage IAML (UK & Irl) will be keeping you up to date with Tweets (@IAML_UK_IRL) and our brand new blog.