MLT funded projects
Potential new projects suitable for funding
The Trustees are aware of many projects of benefit to the music library community, which would be considered for support, and wishes to encourage students and library professionals in making applications for funding. Awards do not normally exceed £1,000, but the support of the Trust can be effective in gaining partnership funding from other sources.
The following list is intended to guide applicants towards the areas in which the Trust might grant start-up funding, partnership funding and support in general. The list should not be regarded as exhaustive; further ideas are sought.
The list is not prioritised.
- Survey of music publishers' archives with recommendations for a national strategy for their cataloguing and preservation.
- Catalogues of off-air and unreleased sound recordings.
- Catalogues of the holdings of light and popular music collections, including the Light Music Society (Ernest Tomlinson) and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Dan Godfrey's library).
- Catalogues of collections of film music and associated documentation.
- Research into the holdings of broadcasting companies and independent programme providers.
- Survey of archives of music societies and performance organisations with a related national cataloguing and preservation strategy.
- 'Family tree' of music publishers up to the present.
- Project to encourage composers and small publishers to deposit their works with libraries.
- Project to bring together existing song indexes into one online resource.
- Development of recommended standards of service and resource provision for music libraries.
- Histories of major performance organisations that are inadequately documented at present.
- Catalogues of musicians' letters held by Arts Council/regional arts boards.
- National online union catalogue of holdings of collected editions.
- Project to catalogue material issued commercially but often not indexed e.g. CDs issued with magazines or books.