Music brings people together, and IAML membership supports our aim to make music internationally accessible through acquisition and lending, preservation and digitization, cataloguing and bibliography, and documentation and research. Moreover, most music librarians and archivists serve as educators, opening up the vast world of information and repertoire during their daily interactions with students, faculty members, researchers, musicians, and the general public. We work internationally on multiple fronts to promote and protect musical heritage among diverse cultures, because the importance of music in the lives of the world's peoples is something we truly cherish.

Elections for Branch and Commission officers in Antwerp

[Translations into French and German follow]

Dear Colleagues,

Elections will be held for Branch and Commission officers at the IAML conference in Antwerp (2014). This is a good opportunity for those who want to take a more active role in the work of IAML. You are invited to indicate your interest by contacting the current Branch or Commission Chairs.

The mid-year Board meeting 7-8 March in Brussels

Dear Colleagues,

The mid-year Board meeting will take Place 7-8 March in Brussels. One of the most important items on the agenda is the proposal for a revised Constitution and Rules of Procedure. The "Constitution Reform Committee" has been working very conscientiously and has delivered two solid documents to me within the stipulated time. After the Board has had its saying the documents will be published on the IAML website and announced on IAML-L, with an explanatory document summarizing the proposed changes (before 18 April according to the Constitution)...

Paris Museum of Music Archives Online

The Paris-based Museum of Music keeps archives from luthiers, instrument makers and musicians. Several hundreds of these documents are now accessible online. These archives testify to evolutions both in instrument-making and in the musical scene during the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, they comprise registers from Érard, Pleyel and Gaveau, from Nicolas Lupot, Gand and Bernardel’s instrument-making workshops, and they also include substantial correspondence between luthiers Chanot and Chardon. The main part of these archive collections - comprising extremely fragile documents, sometimes in poor condition - was digitized and uploaded for safe-keeping and accessibility purposes, as testimony.

Directory of South African Music Collections

As we read from our colleague Santie de Jongh on IAML-L earlier this week, there is a new resource from South Africa: the Directory of South African Music Collections (link is external). Its goal is to "collat[e] information on special music collections in South Africa in order to stimulate music research on South African materials in South Africa and internationally." It includes information from 37 institutions and will continue to grow.

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