IAML-Music Librarians, Archivists and Information Specialists of the World

27/01/2025

Salzburg celebrates Mozart's 269th birthday today! The world-famous composer is omnipresent in the city of his birth all year round and sometimes makes us forget that Salzburg's musical history also has so many other names and stories to offer. Find out when you come to Salzburg for the international IAML Congress in July 2025. Registration starts soon!

Only 160 days to go!

19/12/2024

We're still waiting for Salzburg to look as snowy as in the pictures, but Christmas is coming for sure.
Preparations for the congress are taking a short holiday break, but will be resumed with renewed vigour in the new year.
The call for papers brought the impressive number of over 150(!) submissions. Once the papers have been viewed and selected, the congress programme will be presented and then registration can begin.
So many good reasons for anticipation!
Only 198 days to go!

13/12/2024

This weekend is your last chance to submit an abstract for the IAML 2025 Congress in Salzburg, Austria.

We are accepting proposals for Papers and Posters. Use these Google Forms to submit your proposals:
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/salzburg-2025-call-for-papers
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/salzburg-2025-call-for-posters

Chairs of IAML sections should follow the instructions here for their sessions:
➡️ https://www.iaml.info/call-for-papers-chairs

📣 The deadline is this Sunday, 15 December 2024.

For more details, please visit the IAML page: https://www.iaml.info/congresses/2025-salzburg

📸: View of Salzburg from Hohensalzburg Castle by Ввласенко, from Wikimedia Commons

10/12/2024

Is going to IAML Congresses one of your favorite things?
The Call for Papers and Posters for IAML 2025 in Salzburg is open until this **Sunday, December 15.**

You can submit your proposal via the online form here: https://www.iaml.info/news/iaml-2025-call-papers-and-posters

More information about the congress is available here: https://www.iaml.info/congresses/2025-salzburg

(📸: Mirabell Palace and its gardens by Isiwal, from Wikimedia Commons)

30/11/2024

Radio France spotlights an autograph manuscript of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, with AIBM France Vice-President Agnès Simon showing us some of its features from its home in the BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Saviez-vous que "L'Apprenti sorcier" de Paul Dukas a fait la gloire du film "Fantasia" de Walt Disney ?La Bibliothèque Nationale de France regorge de trésors...

26/11/2024

Thank you for joining us at our panel discussion last week on digital score platforms, led by Stephanie Bonjack (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Katherine Penner (University of Manitoba Libraries). We heard about five different platforms for using digital music and the features of each. The presentation was followed by a discussion and questions from our day-to-day experiences, with a particular focus on how our library patrons use digital scores and how to teach these tools.

Exclusively for IAML members, the recording can now be viewed on the IAML website in the members' area. After logging into the IAML website, click the link on the left-hand side for the "IAML Members' Area". Midway down the page is a section "IAML Online Events," where the panel is linked.

Not yet a member of IAML? You can join by contacting your national branch or the IAML treasurer. More information about becoming a member of IAML can be found here: https://www.iaml.info/how-become-member

Full details of the online event: https://www.iaml.info/news/invitation-iaml-online-event-panel-and-discussion-digital-score-platforms-libraries

24/11/2024

The next session is this Thursday, featuring "The trying Dutchman: Herman van Dÿk and amateur music in Halifax".
Presented by Geoff Thomason
See IAML's events calendar for more listings like this: https://www.iaml.info/events-list

Join IAML-Music Librarians, Archivists and Information Specialists of the World this November and December for their Autumn Lunchtime Webinars.

A mix of presentations and discussions awaits, covering fascinating topics like music in archives, cataloguing ethics, and more. Open to everyone.

The next session is 21 Nov 1-2pm

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=qJGrCdbmuk-Y2mPqx6s84vPopevDIoFLllR2tnWAV3BUNDcyVDUwSkE3Q09KODU1UzdLVkxYTjgwSy4u

22/11/2024

See you in a few hours at our online panel and discussion on Digital Score Platforms for Libraries!

IAML members will have access to the recording following the discussion.

You are invited to the next IAML Online Event, a panel and discussion about Digital Score Platforms for Libraries.

It will take place Friday, November 22, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

For more information and the registration link, see: https://www.iaml.info/news/invitation-iaml-online-event-panel-and-discussion-digital-score-platforms-libraries

Digital scores are slowly becoming ubiquitous in the music studio and on stage. Adoption across music libraries, archives, and documentation centres varies widely, and now is a good time to dive into what is available and how these platforms work. In this session, we will review a number of the dominant digital scores platforms available to libraries supporting music study. While a few of these platforms are designed primarily with individual users in mind, more and more institutions are looking to include these collections in their holdings. We will look closely at the experiences of users when using these resources in the institutional setting.

Panelists and organizers:
- Stephanie Bonjack, Music, Theatre & Dance Librarian; Head of Collections, Materials Management & Cataloging Section, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
- Katherine Penner, Music, Film & Theatre Liaison Librarian, University of Manitoba Libraries, Canada

Moderator: Rupert Ridgewell, IAML President

15/11/2024

REMINDER: Call for papers & posters!
You are cordially invited to submit your poster and paper proposals for the IAML congress 2025 in Salzburg, Austria! The call is open only until 15 December 2024. Check the congress homepage for details: www.iaml2025.at

10/11/2024

You are invited to the next IAML Online Event, a panel and discussion about Digital Score Platforms for Libraries.

It will take place Friday, November 22, 2024 at 16:00 UTC.

For more information and the registration link, see: https://www.iaml.info/news/invitation-iaml-online-event-panel-and-discussion-digital-score-platforms-libraries

Digital scores are slowly becoming ubiquitous in the music studio and on stage. Adoption across music libraries, archives, and documentation centres varies widely, and now is a good time to dive into what is available and how these platforms work. In this session, we will review a number of the dominant digital scores platforms available to libraries supporting music study. While a few of these platforms are designed primarily with individual users in mind, more and more institutions are looking to include these collections in their holdings. We will look closely at the experiences of users when using these resources in the institutional setting.

Panelists and organizers:
- Stephanie Bonjack, Music, Theatre & Dance Librarian; Head of Collections, Materials Management & Cataloging Section, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
- Katherine Penner, Music, Film & Theatre Liaison Librarian, University of Manitoba Libraries, Canada

Moderator: Rupert Ridgewell, IAML President

06/11/2024

FESABID, the Federación Española de Sociedades de Archivística, Biblioteconomía, Documentación y Museística, is keeping abreast of the situation in Spain regarding libraries in the regions that were recently flooded.

05/11/2024

Hello from Norway! 🇳🇴 IAML Past President Pia Shekhter took a study trip to Oslo along with Joakim Lilljegren and Niklas Persson, both colleagues at the University of Gothenburg Library, and Güneş Çetinkaya Şerik from Istanbul.
They visited the Norges musikkhøgskole, the Nasjonalbiblioteket and the Deichman Bjørvika.
You can read about this study visit and view more pictures on the IAML website: https://www.iaml.info/news/study-trip-music-libraries-oslo

30/10/2024

Join RILM this evening, in Rome or live on YouTube!

It's the day we've been waiting for! RILM cordially invites you to join us for the release of DEUMM Online today, Wednesday, 30 October 2024, at 7:30 pm CET / 2:30 pm EST. Co-sponsored by the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica (ADUIM) and IAML-Italia, the event will take place in the Teatro Palladium auditorium in Rome, Italy.
DEUMM Online digitizes, enhances, and extends the Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM), the most important modern music dictionary in the Italian language. Comprising a broad range of entries (persons, topics, dances, genres, geographical locations, institutions, instruments, and works), DEUMM Online uses advanced and intuitive search and translation functionalities. This venerable music encyclopedia, which has set the standards in modern Italian music lexicography, is, in its new online format, once again an indispensable node in a comprehensive, international, networked research experience.

The program will include Daniele Trucco's DEUMM-inspired music, greetings from Luca Aversano (President, ADUIM), Marcoemilio Camera (President, IAML Italia), and Tina Fruehauf (Executive Director, RILM), as well as presentations by Zdravko Blazekovic (Executive Editor, RILM), Stefano Campagnolo (Director, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma), Alex Braga (composer), and DEUMM Online’s general editors Antonio Baldassarre and Daniela Castaldo. Pianist Giuseppe Magagnino will also perform works by Ellington, Beethoven, The Beatles, and more.

For those unable to join the Rome event in person, the event will be live streamed on YouTube by Fondazione Roma Tre Teatro Palladium: https://www.youtube.com/

Hear more about DEUMM Online: https://www.rilm.org/deumm-online/deumm-release/
Download the DEUMM Online brochure and logo: https://www.rilm.org/librarians/
Watch the DEUMM Online trailer (Italian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=LGEx_cz-MmhS3UG3&v=0zaQL8N2yAU&feature=youtu.be

27/10/2024

Join RILM in Rome this week at the launch of DEUMM Online, or on YouTube for the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/

DEUMM Online – Coming Soon Il sito web di DEUMM Online è disponibile all’indirizzo deumm.org dal 30 ottobre 2024 quando il progetto DEUMM Online sarà presentato al teatro Palladium di Roma. Fino al 30 ottobre 2024 per accedere a un’anteprima del sito web di DEUMM Online clicca qui (p...

22/10/2024

The latest issue of Fontes artis musicae is now available. It is a special issue on Digital Scores guest edited by Stephanie Bonjack.

Articles:
💻 iPad and Digital Sheet Music Delivery: Supporting Student Development and Encouraging Digital Score Use Through Library-Circulated Hardware by Katherine Penner
🎶 Interactive Scores at the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) by Treasa Harkin
🖥 Using Alma Digital to Provide Access to Digital Scores: One Music Library’s Experience by Michael Jones, Robert Rich, Jacob Schaub, and Holling Smith-Bo
➕ Briefs / Feuilletons and Book Reviews

IAML members will find the full issue on the IAML website. It is also available through Project Music for subscribers.
Read more on the IAML website: https://www.iaml.info/news/new-issue-fontes-artis-musicae-digital-scores

17/10/2024

Autumn has arrived in Salzburg and is showing its beautiful side, also around the UNIPARK, the main venue of the next international IAML congress in 2025.

Start your virtual tour here:
https://www.plus.ac.at/kulturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/service-fuer-studierende/virtueller-rundgang-unipark/

Only 262 days to go!

16/10/2024

International Musicological Society Study Group Music and Cultural Studies and
The Friends of Music Society Athens
announce an
Interdisciplinary Conference
Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context
in Honour of Stephanie Merakos
20-21st February 2025
The Friends of Music Society at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall

The Call for Papers can be read here:https://mmb.org.gr/sites/default/files/cfp_athens_2025__0.pdf

Please send a brief abstract of up to 200 words and a short biography by 10th of November 2024 to the email address of the Friends of Music Society: sfm -at- megaron.gr