United Kingdom and IrelandAuthor(s): Liz HartSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 56, No. 4 (October-December 2009), pp. 403-404Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23512226 .

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REPORTS 403

In February I had, for the first time, the pleasure of attending the annual meeting of

the Music Library Association in Chicago. It was very educational and I reported diligently on our blog.

The annual meeting of the Swedish IAML Branch took place in the Music Library of Sweden in Stockholm. According to tradition we had some lectures in the afternoon. This

year we focused on the centennial of "The

Traditional Music Commission", which was ap pointed by collectors and researchers in folk

culture. The subject turned out to be very in

teresting and even controversial! There are

apparently many views upon how to define folk

music.

As many of you know our Branch experi

enced a great loss in May when Anders Lönn

passed away after a period of illness. Anders Lönn served as a chair of our Branch for more

than twenty years. We all felt safe under his

most competent leadership and his many inter

national contacts brought us close to the

mother organization IAML.We were proud to

have him as the representative of our Branch at

the annual IAML conferences.

A comforting thought amid the sadness af

ter the death of Anders Lönn is the memory of

the symposium arranged by the Swedish IAML Branch last year in Uppsala in his honour. The occasion was Anders 65th anniversary. During the symposium many friends and colleagues of

Anders took the opportunity to express their af

fection and appreciation. Pamela Thompson

was invited as a representative of IAML and held

a wonderful speech about Anders' deep devo

tion to our organization. I know that Anders

was both happy and proud of the recognition.

Pia Shekhter, Chair, IAML (Sweden)

United Kingdom and Ireland

Our membership rose slightly in 2008, but we think numbers will be down slightly this year, and fear they may fall further in the future. A small stand-alone subscription like ours is an

easy target when savings are to be made, and

membership is less likely to be renewed once a

dedicated music department is closed or a spe cialist post deleted. A long-term survey of ad vertisements for music library positions reveals that they have halved over the last five years.

Despite this, much splendid work is achieved within the diverse music library community of the UK and Ireland, and in April we launched our new Excellence Award for Music Libraries

to highlight and celebrate it. It's open to all mu sic libraries no matter what their sector, size, or

type, and the submissions will be judged by a panel of experts from the music industry

chaired by Professor John Tyrrell, Honorary Professor at Cardiff University School of Music. We expect that the first awards will be

made in spring 2010. In these difficult economic times, we are

concerned to ensure the sustainability of the

many online projects the Branch has initiated over the years. The initial funding for the

heavily-used Encore! union catalogue of sets of

performance music in UK libraries ran out a

long time ago, but a little more became avail able recently, enabling the addition of a

significant number of library holdings and de

duplication of records. Then came news that

the server hosting both the evolving Concert

Programmes database, and Cecilia, our online

guide to music collections, was due to be

switched off, but we hope that the data can

be migrated to a proposed new Culture Grid

funded by the Museums Libraries and Archives

Council, with potential for development and at

least some sustainability. The contents lists for

our journal Brio from the Spring/Summer 2007

issue onwards are now available online on the

Branch's website.

Copyright issues have taken up much of our

time this year, and we have joined with others

in the library and information profession in

making the strongest representations against

draft legislation which would shift the balance

unjustifiably towards rights holders, particu larly the proposal to extend the term of protec

tion for sound recordings to 95 years, which the

European Parliament has nonetheless voted

through. Sadly, with the deletion of the CILIP

post with special responsibility for intellectual

property issues, we have lost in the UK a crucial

advocate for library interests at a time when the

rights of users appear ever more vulnerable.

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404 FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE 56/4

The Branch's 2009 Annual Study Weekend

took place in Edinburgh, with presentations on new resources, Scottish music, library build

ings and Haydn, and professional updates on a

range of topics in the popular 'Report and infor

mation' sessions. We have continued to run a

full programme of courses and seminars, and

as well as music librarianship presentations to

students we organised an new introductory ses

sion on music cataloguing at University College London -

possibly a foot in the door for re

introducing some formal music library educa

tion into library and information departments.

Additionally we have been delighted to co operate with the Hungarian National Branch in

a joint programme to study music library edu

cation in each of our countries and share best

practice. This was achieved through the ster

ling work of HNB's President Julianna Göcza in obtaining a subsidy from the Hungarian National Civil Fund, and this May for the first part of the programme she and Marianna

Zsoldos came to the UK to attend the Academic

Music Librarians' seminar, meet with our Edu

cation Officer Amelie Roper, and tour several

major music libraries in London and Birming ham. A reciprocal visit of UK music librarians to Budapest and Eger is planned for 2010.

Finally work has really begun in earnest on

planning the 2011 IAML International Con ference at Trinity College Dublin, with much of

the organisation in place and some splendid concerts and excursions in prospect too.

Dublin is a wonderful city to visit, so make a

note in your diaries now for 24-29 July 2011!

Membership (December 2008): 244, of which 116 were institutional (65 national, 51 international) and 128 personal (77 national, 51 international)

Publications: Brio; ed. Rupert Ridgewell; Newsletter; ed. Alison Hall (both two issues p.a.)

Web site: www.iaml-uk-irl.org; webmaster Antony Gordon

Excellence Award for Music Libraries: www.iaml-uk-irl.org/awards.html

Liz Hart President, IAML (UK and Ireland)

UNITED STATES BRANCH

Board of Directors: Judy Tsou (president 2008 2011), Mary Wallace Davidson (past presi dent); Manuel Erviti (secretary); Michael

Colby (treasurer); Elizabeth Davis (2007-2010) and John Shepard (2008-2011) (members-at large); James Cassaro (IAML Board).

The IAML-US Branch sponsored a 90 minute session on IAML Projects during the MLA conference in Chicago in February,

chaired by Jane Gottlieb. Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie spoke on RILM, Antonio Baldassare

on RIdIM, Robert Cohen on RIPM, and Sarah Adams on RISM and the Hofmeister Project.

This year, the Branch held a tea in memory of Suki Sommer, long-time IAML member, also at the MLA conference.

As reported two years ago, a travel grant

was established in honor of Lenore Coral, and

we awarded the first grant last year for the

Naples Conference. We have now established

a fundraising committee, co-chaired by Gerry Ostrove and Linda Blotner, to put our grant

funding on solid ground. Due to the economic climate and the in

crease in US postal rate, the Donated Materials

Program has been on hold since last summer.

However, with the encouragement of the LAML

US Board, Maijorie Hassen, long-time program

coordinator, is restarting the program later this

summer. Since 2005, Naxos Digital has pro vided a 5-user subscription to Naxos Music

Library for Jagiellonian University, Krakow. The current subscription will end in September 2009 and Naxos will no longer support this

arrangement beyond September.

Judy Tsou

President, IAML-US

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