Resources

This page contains links to useful resources, including databases that have resulted from the work of the Branch. For the history of Branch–led projects see the Projects page.

• Advocacy leaflet — Make sure there is music in your library!
• AHDS Performing Arts
• ASW presentations. Selected presentations from recent ASWs.
• ASWs and AGMs from 1967 (in reverse order).
• Barbican Song Index
• Cantate — Computer Access to Notation and Text in Music Libraries
• Cecilia — find out what collections are where (printed music; archives; sound recordings; instruments, and much more)
• Concert Programmes Project
• Encore! — the online union catalogue of performance sets available for loan
• Film and Television Sources in the UK and Ireland - a scoping study by Miguel Mera and Ben Winters, commissioned by the Music Libraries Trust and published in Brio 46/2 (2009), p. 37-65, © the authors and IAML(UK & Irl).
• Future provision of recorded music in public libraries IAML (UK & Irl) has produced a position statement which advocates the continued provision of recorded music as a core part of the cultural offer available from public libraries. The position statement can be used to support the continued provision of recorded music at local level.
• Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations for music librarians
• Harmonica — Accompanying Information on Music Information in Libraries
• Intute — access to web resources for education and research
• Music Libraries and Disability
• Music Libraries Trust
• Music web resources (compiled by Graeme Lockheart)
• Outreach — providing assistance to music libraries and archives in economically disadvantaged countries
• PATRON — Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online
• Public Performance Licences : an information guide : music and film activities in public libraries
• PULMAN — Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks
• RFID. An article from vol.47, no.2 of Brio © the authors and IAML (UK & Irl).
• RILM UK — international index to abstracts of music literature on all subjects
• RILM Ireland
• RISM UK — international union catalogue of music published before 1800; international catalogue of music manuscripts 1600-1800
• RISM Ireland
• RMA — the Royal Musical Association
• Strategic Plan 2013 -2018