Training, Courses, Education and Conferences

Interested in music librarianship as a career? IAML(UK & Irl)'s guide, Working with music in libraries, is available in print, and (without the images) in pdf format (58kB). There is also a document produced by the Music Library Association of America (MLA): Music Librarianship — is it for you?.

IAML(UK & Irl) offers opportunities for professional and personal development of Music Library staff ranging from one–day training courses to the (UK & Irl) Annual Study Weekend and the annual International Conference. The Branch offers presentations to departments of library and information studies and other interested organizations as part of its educational remit.

The events diary lists currently available courses, professional visits and conferences. Membership of IAML or IAML(UK & Irl) generally confers discounts on courses.

Courses on offer include:

• Music for the terrified — designed for staff working in music libraries who feel that they lack basic musical knowledge.
• Virtuoso Skills for Music Enquiries — designed to give staff working in music libraries, or with music collections in multi–disciplinary libraries, the confidence to answer music enquiries at an advanced level, using both printed and online resources.
• '40 copies of Messiah please...' — designed to help public and academic music library staff obtain sets of vocal and orchestral music for choirs and orchestras.
• Managing Music Collections — designed to give library staff without a background in music a foundation in the basic principles underlying the successful management of music collections.

Further information is available from the Education Officer, Christopher Cipkin, Main Library Whiteknights, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 223, Reading, RG6 6AE.  Tel. 0118 378 8780; Fax. 0118 378 6636; email: c.b.cipkin@rdg.ac.uk