IAML International Association of Music Libraries

The 2004 annual meeting was held jointly with the Association dealing with Intellectual Property Rights (SUISA). It was followed in May by a visit by IAML-members where a presentation and a conference with discussion took place. In conclusion a general agreement was reached involving copyright issues on reproduction of printed music and sound recordings in music libraries and archives. This agreement will now spread out as soon as each interested public institution has signed it.

The Annual Meeting 1995 of the Swiss Branch took place in Basle on May 12. In the morning the members visited the Collection of Musical Instruments of the Historical Museum, directed by Veronika Gutmann, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and the Library of the High School of Music in Basle (Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel). In the afternoon the formal annual meeting was held in the University Library followed by three presentations concerning the final re port of the Minimal Standard Working Group, the “Frauenmusik-Forum”, and the future activities of RIdIM in Switzerland.

The Annual Meeting of the Swiss Branch took place in Bern at the National Library on May 7. The topic of the day was: “Music documentation in Switzerland: which offer for which demand?”. Papers were read about the role of music in the current reorganization of the National Library, the music information available from SUISA and the SVISA Foundation, and about music information in the Netherlands.