United Kingdom and IrelandAuthor(s): Liz HartSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 55, No. 4 (October-December 2008), pp. 657-658Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23512630 .

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REPORTS

darchiv presented by Barbara Boock will re

main unforgettable. The excursion to the Paul Sacher Stiftung was quickly fully booked out as

expected.

Several Swiss members went to the IAML

conference, held in Naples from 20 to 25 July, and some of them gave papers. The President

could only take part in the second half of the week. As usual, two lunch meetings were held in preparation of the next congress in Amster

dam which again will be a joint congress with IMS with a Symposium on „Music and Notation".

During the closed meeting of RISM on

Saturday, 26 July, RISM Switzerland announced the development of a new database programme

in co-operation with RISM UK and the Distri buted Digital Music libraries and Archives

Laboratory (DDMAL) at McGill University in Montreal, which is based on MARC 21 in order to fulfil conditions to keep national subventions. Since January 2008, RISM Switzerland is offi

cially acknowledged as a National Research Center by the Swiss National Science Founda tion. The Fonoteca Nazionale Lugano started to

open on-line access to its digitized sound

recordings from within several public libraries in Switzerland. Before the beginning of this new service, difficult copyright questions had to be solved. The first "listening spots" are available at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich and at the Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire

Lausanne (see http://www.fonoteca.ch). In

July 2008, the RIdIM database opened for beta

testing. After this, persons and groups cata

loguing iconographie documents significant to

music may apply for password-protected access

to the web-based database free of charge. The

access to the database is provided via web

browser at www.ridim.org. The next General

Assembly of IAML Switzerland will be held at the new library of the Musik-Akademie Basel on 18 September 2009.

Dorothea Baumann

President, 1AML (Switzerland)

United Kingdom and Ireland

Activities have continued at their usual level this year, with a well-attended Annual Study

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Weekend in Canterbury, visits to the Royal

Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and to the new facilities of the British Library Sound Archive, and two annual seminars for librarians

working with music in public and academic li braries respectively. These attract good atten

dances from non-members and hopefully raise

the Branch profile within the profession. Education still features strongly as we try to

compensate for the lack of music library train

ing in the country. We have an hour-long pre

sentation to library and information students

called Managing a music collection in the 21st

century, and this was given at universities in

Dublin, Liverpool, London, Loughborough,

Manchester, Sheffield, and Strathclyde, And a new course on music cataloguing joined our

portfolio of courses, which also include Music

Inter-Lending, and Virtuoso Skills for Music

Enquiries. We were particularly delighted to achieve a long-held ambition to offer the basic music course Music for the Terrified in Ireland, where we ran it twice - in Dublin and Cork -

with the support of the Irish Library Council. The creation in 2002 of the joint United

Kingdom and Ireland Branch owed much to the

advocacy of the then President Susi Wood

house, and at the Annual General Meeting this

April we made formal recognition of her out

standing contribution to the Branch by award

ing her its Honorary Membership. We continue to be concerned about cuts to

music library services, in particular this year

where they threaten to affect the loan of music

sets to choirs and orchestras, and, in fact, the is

sue of facilitating music interlibrary lending generally is an increasingly hot topic. Another,

and we share this with many national branches,

is the future of CDs and other audiovisual ma

terials in public libraries, including the whole

question of digital lending. This is a delicate

area, and we are fortunate in having the sup

port of a government agency and our national

library association CILIP (The Chartered Insti tute of Library and Information Professionals), in seeking to negotiate a new and constructive

relationship with the music industry. Twenty-five years ago, a former President,

John May, had the vision to found the Music

Libraries Trust, which works in conjunction

with the Branch, supporting with financial

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awards the education and training of music li brarians, and also research into music librari

anship. This year saw the fruition of work initi ated by the Trust with the launch of the Concert Programmes Project Online Database,

which offers unprecedented access to collec

tions of programmes scattered far and wide

across the UK and Ireland. Finally, the Branch itself initiated a new award this year, with the establishment of the Ian Ledsham Bursary

Fund to commemorate a much respected for

mer member of IAML(UK and Ireland), an ed ucator who saw that the IAML international

conferences have great potential for profes

sional development. So the fund in his name

provides support to enable deserving members

to attend, and the first recipients are among the

participants in Napoli in 2008.

Membership (December 2007): 231, of which 109 were institutional (60 national, 49 international) and 122 personal (78 national, 44 international). Publications: Brio; ed. Rupert Ridgewell; Newsletter; ed. Alison Hall (both two issues p.a.). Web site: www.iaml-uk-irl.org; web master Antony Gordon

Liz Hart President, 1AML (UK and Ireland)

United States

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

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

Elections were held early in 2008 for presi dent, secretary, and one Member-at-Large.

Judy Tsou (University of Washington) was elected president, succeeding Mary Wallace Davidson, Manuel Erviti (University of Cali fornia, Berkeley) succeeded Bob Acker as sec

retary, and John Shepard (Rutgers University) succeeded Alan Green as the new member-at

large. The Nominating Committee was chaired

by Ruth Henderson; Dan Zager and Bob Acker

were the other two members of the committee.

As in the previous year, the 1AML-US Branch requested and received an exhibit table

gratis at the annual Music Library Association

meeting in an attempt to increase visibility of IAML-US within MLA We also held a raffle at the exhibit table for a free one-year member

ship in LAML-US. The winner of this year's raf fle was Gerald Heroux.

This year, membership has held steady with 89 individual members and 129 institutional members. There is much work to do to in

crease our membership, considering that there

are over 900 personal members in the Music Li

brary Association in the United States. One initiative that we have planned is to hold a

program session at the next Music Library

Association Meeting to highlight some of the IAML projects. This 90-minute session will in clude short descriptions and demonstrations of

the various projects. The conference will take

place in Chicago in February. Our webmaster and now secretary Manuel

Erviti redesigned the Branch's website, http:// www.iamlus.org, last summer and unveiled it to

the public in October 2007. The governing prin ciples for the new design were simplicity (use of fewer images and tables, for example) and in

creased content (addition of information about the branch and membership). Unrelated to the new design, the website moved to a new host

ing service in January 2008 due to technical

problems with the previous host.

As reported last year, the US Branch estab

lished a travel grant in memory of Lenore

Coral. The grant is to support travel to attend

IAML meetings and is open to IAML-US mem

bers, especially to those who are new confer

ence attendees. I am pleased to announce that

Steven Nordstrom, music cataloger at the Anne

Potter Wilson Music Library of Vanderbilt Uni

versity, is the first recipient of the Lenore Coral Travel Grant.

Our long-standing Donated Music Materials Program, single-handedly managed by Marjorie Hassen, has sent approximately 500 books and scores and 250 journal volumes to

29 libraries this year. The IAML Outreach Fund supported the shipping costs ($700.65) for one

major gift from Prof. Leeman Perkins, and

IAML-US's Neil Ratliff Fund covered shipping costs ($107.20) for two other donations. All other shipping costs were paid by the donor in

stitutions. In this coming year, Marjorie will change to an exclusively electronic mail system

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