IAML International Association of Music Libraries

In the last year IAML Russian Branch held at the Taneev Library a two-week professional skill improvement course for music librarians. This specialized course had not been held for many years. Training was given to thirty music librarians from seventeen regions and towns of Russia. The course was very useful, but we would like to work on improvements for future courses.

As usual, we have held two traditional archive conferences, one at the Taneev Library of Moscow State Conservatoire and the other at the library of the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire.

In May, a meeting of the IAML Russian Branch was held in Ekaterinburg within the framework of Russian Library Association conference (The IAML Russian Branch is also the music library section of the Russian Library Association). The theme was information on ethnomusical resources of music libraries in the various regions of our country.

We have begun preparing for the IAML Congress to be held in Moscow in 2010.

Emilia Rassina

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