Chronology 1949-2000
1949
27- October. Florence, Italy, at the Cherubini Conservatory. First international meeting of music libraries; 60 participants from 12 countries.
1950
July. Lüneburg, Germany. Second international congress of music libraries held with the International Musicological Society (IMS) - Provisional commission elected to draft a constitution and guidelines for a permanent international association: Valentin Denis, chairman, Vladimir Fédorov, secretary - Working group to establish the Répertoire international des Sources Musicales (Friedrich Blume, Vladimir Fédorov, Hans Halm, Sven Lunn, Wolfgang Schmieder and Fausto Torrefranca).
1951
July 22-25. Paris, France: 120 participants from 23 countries. AIBM/IAML/IVMB formally established, first constitution adopted, main goals set: 1) an international repertory of musical sources in collaboration with the IMS; 2) an international safety stock of microfilms to cover the principal treasures of manuscripts and printed music; 3) an international code for the cataloguing of music; 4) the indexing and abstracting of music periodicals jointly with the IMS; 5) the international exchange of music; and 6) the concerns of radio libraries - Elections/Board: Richard S. Hill, president, A. Hyatt King, Walter Martin Luther, Nino Pirrotta, vice-presidents, Vladimir Fédorov, secretary, Renée Girardon, treasurer, Oneyda Alvarenga, Hans Zehntner, members-at-large.
1952
July 8-9, Utrecht, Netherlands. Meeting of the Comité Exécutif.; Honorary Members: Friedrich Blume, Louis-Marie Michon, Fausto Torrefranca, Valentin Denis present , as well as observers from UNESCO, IFLA, IMS, IFD, and ICOM - First Working Groups and Commissions: RISM (Friedrich Blume), International Cataloguing Code (Kay Schmidt-Phiseldeck). Radio music libraries (John H. Davies) - National groups formed in 8 countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States - Membership: 230.
October: first issue of the AIBM Bulletin d'information, Vladimir Fédorov, editor
1953
March. First list of members from 21 countries and a first Liste séléctive of recent music publications published in the Bulletin d’information.
April 14-15, 18-19, Paris, France: meeting of the Comité Exécutif.
July 20, Bamberg, Germany: one-day IAML meeting at the IMS conference. - New Commissions: Phonothèques et discothèques musicales (André Schaeffner), Bibliothèques musicales publiques (Alphonse Ott).
1954
June: Fontes artis musicae is published, edited by Vladimir Fédorov; replacing Bulletin d'information.
1955
September 10-18, Brussels, Belgium: 4th Congress 2nd General Assembly, within the framework of IFLA / IFD joint congress - Elections/Board: Alexander Hyatt King, president, Vladimir Fédorov, Hans Halm, Richard S. Hill, vice-presidents, Frits Noske, secretary general, André Jurres, treasurer, Mercedes de Moura Reis Pequeno, Claudio Sartori, members at large - Statutes of 1951 amended.
1956
September 25-28, London, United Kingdom: Conference - no changes.
1957
September 30 - October 4, Kassel, Germany: Conference - New Commissions: Commission internationale des musées musicaux (president Albert Van der Linden); Commission internationale des bibliothèques scientifiques (en fondation) - Publications: first volumes of Répertoires internationaux de musique contemporaine, à l'usage des amateurs et des jeunes [on behalf of the International Music Council], and of Code international de catalogage de la musique [1 of 5].
1958
September 22-26, Madrid, Spain: Conference - New Commission: Commission internationale des bibliothèques scientifiques - List of members issued.
1959
June 29 - July 4, Cambridge, England: Congress - Elections/Board: Folke Lindberg, president, Richard S. Hill, vice-president, Frits Noske, secretary general, Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - 687 members - New Projects: International Dictionary of Musical Terms, Catalogue of new editions of early music, and an Inventory of rare orchestral materials. (Broadcasting Libraries)
1960
September 12-16, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Conference: included first informal meeting of the Music Information Centres - Membership: 750 members.
1961
June 26-30, Lausanne, Switzerland: Conference: 88 participants from 14 countries - New Commissions: group of national Music Documentation Centres interested in forming a working group and possibly joining IAML - Membership: 782 members - Publications: Code International de Catalogage, volume. 2; International Inventory of Musical Sources, vol. 1; plans to publish a series, Catalogus Musicus.
1962
August 13-18, Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden: Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Record Libraries (V. Britten), Research Libraries (Frits Noske), Music Information Centres (André Jurres) - Elections/Board: Vladimir Fédorov, president , Folke Lindberg, past-president, Frits Noske, Brooks Shepard, vice-presidents, Harald Heckmann, secretary, Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Membership: 797 members.
1963
May 28 - June 1, Milan, Italy: Conference - Related matters: Fédération internationale des Phonothèques (FIP) founded.
1964
August 11-16, Aarhus, Denmark: Conference: 126 members from 18 countries - New Commissions or Changes: Commission des cotages d’editeurs (François Lesure); Commission of Music Research Libraries (Rita Benton) - Membership: 891 members in 40 countries.
1965
July 1-6, Dijon, France: Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Public Libraries Commission (K. L. Nicol), Phonothèques (Harold Spivacke), Subcommission for the Recording of Neglected Works (Lise Caldagues) - Elections/Board: André Jurres, president, Vladimir Fédorov, past-president, John Howard Davies, Mercedes Reis Pequeno, Brooks Shepard jr, vice-presidents; Harald Heckmann, secretary general; Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Honorary Member: Karl Vötterle - Membership: 923 members - Related matters: Establishment of an international inventory of music literature (RILM) discussed, and an international inventory of old recordings (RISP) begun.
1966
September 4-8, Warsaw, Poland: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Répertoire des Sources Hymnologiques, Répertoire International de la Littérature Musicale (Barry S. Brook).
1967
August 26-29, Salzburg, Austria: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Commission on Publishers’ Plate Numbers changed to Commission on the Dating of Music (François Lesure) - Membership: 988 members - Other matters: Revised Constitution and Rules of Procedure.
1968
September 6-9, New York and Washington, USA: Congress (joint conference with the IMC on the subject of ‘Music and Communication’ until 15 September) - New Commissions or Changes: proposed Sub-commissions on Classification and on Conservatory Libraries - Elections/Board: Vladimir Fédorov, president; André Jurres, past-president, John H. Davies, Mercedes Reis Pequeno, Brooks Shepard jr, vice-presidents, Harald Heckmann, secretary general, Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Honorary Member: Alexander Hyatt King - Membership: 1088 members from 39 counties - Publications: RISM: five volumes published so far; Documenta Musicologica: 27 facsimile volumes published; Catalogus Musicus: four volumes published to date; polyglot dictionary in progress - Other matters: Council sets up commission to examine the organisation of working groups within the Association (Rita Benton, John H. Davies, Alfons Ott and Harold Spivacke).
1969
August 18-22, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: under Record Libraries, Sub-commission on Radio Sound Archives (Harold Spivacke) - Related matters: The International Association of Sound Archives (IASA) is founded; a special commission for cooperation between IAML and IASA is established (IAML representatives: Kurt Dorfmüller, Harald Heckmann and Folke Lindberg).
1970
June 10-15, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic (East Germany): Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Libraries for Music Pedagogy and Performance (Karol Musiol); under Public Libraries, sub-commissions on Education and Training of Music Librarians, Public Music Service, and Public Music Collecting - New National Group: Poland.
1971
August 22-28, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland: Congress - New Commissions or Changes: RIdIM (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale) established in partnership with the IMS and ICOM (Barry S. Brook) - Elections/Board: John H. Davies, president, Mercedes Reis Pequeno, Thor Wood, vice-presidents, Harald Heckmann, secretary-general, Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Membership: 1486 members in 39 countries in total - New National Groups: Czechoslovakia, Hungary - Publications: Plans by President John H. Davies for “Music Libraries of the World” project, to be published jointly by IAML and the IMS.
1972
September 9-15, Bologna, Italy: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Commission for the Dating of Music changed to Commission for Bibliographical Research (Don W. Krummel), Sub-commissions on RISM-XIX: Bibliographical Control of the Printed Music of the 19th Century(Dan Fog) - Election: President John Howard Davies died in August 1972; vice president Thor E. Wood became acting President - Membership: 1575 members - Publications: Directory of Music Research Libraries, vol. 3 (Spain, France, Italy and Portugal).
1973
August 26-31, London, United Kingdom: Conference, 261 participants from 26 countries - New Commissions or Changes: under Research libraries, Subcommission on the Professional training of the research librarian; Harold Spivacke resigned as president of the Commission on Record Libraries; potential new working on Repertory of Music Periodicals - Elections: Ivan Pethes and Hans Steinbeck elected vice-presidents, pending elections for President and other officers in 1974; Friedrich Blume made Honorary President of RISM - Membership: 1649 members - New National Branch: Norway - Other matters: Committee established to discuss changes to the Constitution with a view to increased rights and responsibilities for the General Assembly (Vladimir Fédorov, Harald Heckmann, André Jurres and Heinz Werner).
1974
August 18-24, Jerusalem, Israel: Congress - Elections/Board: Harald Heckmann, president; Thor E. Wood, past president; Barry S. Brook, Iván Pethes, Israel Adler, Hans Steinbeck, vice-presidents; Anders Lönn, secretary general; Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Membership: 1704 members from 38 countries - Publications: Guide for Dating Early Published Music, compiled by D.W. Krummel for the Commission for Bibliographical Research - Other matters: The General Assembly adopts new by-laws.
1975
August 17-23, Montreal, Canada: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Commission for Education and Training (Don L. Roberts) - Publications: Rita Benton and André Jurres become editors of Fontes artis musicae; International basic list of literature on music, compiled by the sub-commission on Public music collecting, (Nederlands Bibliotheek en Lectuur Centrum, 1975); Musikbibliothek aktuell (1975-) bulletin of the subcommission on Reference and community service of the Public Libraries Commission - Other matters: Barry S. Brook named IAML’s representative to the IMC; IAML to seek regular membership in IFLA; and to establish a IAML archive.
1976
August 15-20, Bergen, Norway: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Broadcasting Libraries (Bengt Khylberg), Public Music Libraries (Eric Cooper); Sub-commissions on Public music collecting (Charlotte van der Pot), and on Reference and community services, (Hans Vetterlein), Music Research Libraries (Rudolf Elvers), Libraries in Academies, Conservatories and Music Colleges (Karol Musiol), Record Libraries (Donald L. Leavitt), Sub-commission on Radio sound archives (Dietrich Lotichius), Music Information Centres (Keith Macmillan), Bibliographical Research (Donald W. Krummel), Cataloguing Commission and Sub-commission on Classification (Kurt Dorfmüller), RILM Thesaurus Sub-commission (Anders Lönn) - Honorary President: Vladimir Fédorov - Membership: 1616 members - National Groups: Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany (BRD) and Germany (DDR), Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States - Publications: Fontes frequency increased from three to four issues per year; ‘Editorial Advisory Council’ created, with representatives from each professional branch and working commission; will hold first meeting in Mainz in 1977; further volumes of RISM and Documenta Musicologica are published - Other matters: IAML joins IFLA and obtains representation on IFLA Working Group for ISBD (Printed Music).
1977
September 11-16, Mainz, Germany: Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Commission for Bibliographical Research, Sub-Commission on Terminology (Dan Fog) - Elections/Board: Barry S. Brook, president; Harald Heckmann, past-president; Israel Adler, Karl-Heinz Köhler, Brian Redfern, Hans Steinbeck, vice-presidents; Anders Lönn, secretary general; Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Honorary Member: Harald Heckmann - Membership: 1631 members - Publications: André Jurres agreed to remain as acting editor of Fontes following sudden death of Rita Benton in 1976 - Other matters: Project Group established by Council to undertake a revision of IAML’s objectives and procedures (Heinz Werner, Barry S. Brook, Anders Lönn, Richard Andrewes, Harald Heckmann and François Lesure); IAML now a member both of IFLA and the IMC; Project Group established to select four IFLA sections for which IAML would register, and to nominate representatives for those sections (Hermann Wassner, Maria Calderisi, Heinz Lanzke and Clara Steuermann); special Commission to discuss relations between IAML and IASA (Harald Heckmann, Gerald Gibson and Dietrich Lotichius).
1978
July 23-28, Lisbon, Portugal: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Libraries in academies, conservatories and music colleges (Anthony Hodges), Record libraries (Claes Cnattingius), Music Information Centres (Anna van Steenbergen), Bibliographical Research (Francois Lesure); reorganized Cataloguing Commission and Sub-commission on Classification (Kurt Dorfmüller), new Working Group on Computerized cataloguing (Garrett H. Bowles) and on International Standard Bibliographic Description of Non-Book Materials (Garrett H. Bowles), joint IAML/IASA Committee on Music and Sound Archives (Claes Cnattingius); Publications Committee (Brian Redfern); IAML Project Group on Planning, (Richard Andrewes) - Membership: 1673 members - Other matters: IAML representation in IFLA sections on Bibliography (Maria Calderisi), Cataloguing (Heinz Lanzke), Library Schools and other training aspects (Don L. Roberts) and Public Libraries (Eric Cooper); IMC/IAML project on a world inventory of sources of musical information (WISMI) - Publications: Terminorum musicae index septem linguis redactus: polyglot dictionary of musical terms, ed. Horst Leuchtmann, published under IAML and IMS sponsorship.
1979
July 1-7, Salzburg, Austria: Conference - New Commissions or changes: Bibliographic Research Sub-Commission on Terminology disbanded; Cataloguing Commission Working Group on Computerized Cataloguing (Patrick Mills); and on ISBD (NBM (Garrett H. Bowles); RISM commission mixte (Kurt von Fischer), Advisory Research Committee (Kurt Dorfmüller) - New National Groups: Finland (Kauko Karjalainen) and Japan (Noriko Murai) - Membership: 1743 members in 37 countries - Publications: Musikbibliothek aktuell, newsletter of the Public Libraries Commission’s subcommission on Reference and Community Service, to be replaced by a new journal - Other matters: The Research Libraries Commission produced a report on the supply and use of microfilm; the Commission for Bibliographical Research co-sponsored a project entitled ‘Anthologie de la Critique Musicale;’.IMC explores possibility of producing a Unesco-sponsored World History of Music in consultation with IAML (Barry Brook).
1980
August 3-9, Cambridge, England: Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Music Information Centres (James Murdoch); Commission of Libraries in Academies, Conservatories and Music Colleges changed to Commission of Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions (Anthony Hodges); Bibliographical Research Working Group on Music Periodicals (Imogen Fellinger); Record Libraries Commission and Sub-commission on Radio Sound Archives suspended; Publications Committee (Nanna Schiødt) - Elections/Board: Brian Redfern, president; Maria Calderisi, János Kárpáti, Nanna Schiødt, Heinz Werner, vice-presidents; Anders Lönn, secretary general; Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Honorary President: Harald Heckmann - Honorary Members: Virginia Cunningham, Vincent Duckles - Membership: 1820 members - Other matters: New Constitution adopted, organisation renamed the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, Provisional Rules of Procedure prepared by the Project Group on Objectives and Procedures adopted by Council; Project Group (Planning) proposed new commission structure; Committees appointed to consider the future of Fontes (Clifford Bartlett) and to find candidates for new editor of Fontes (Harald Heckmann); IAML Library established and Steering Committee appointed (Anders Lönn and Vincent Duckles).
1981
September 6-11, Budapest, Hungary: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Commission for Bibliographical Research changed to Bibliography Commission (Maria Calderisi); Research Libraries Branch (Richard Andrewes); Cataloguing Commission Working Group on ISBD(PM)&(A) (Richard Andrewes) and Working Group on ISBD(NBM) (Lenore Coral); RIPMxix established (H. Robert Cohen); IAML/IASA Committee on Music and Sound Archives (Ulf Scharlau, IASA; Derek Lewis, IAML) - Membership: 1828 members - Publications: André Jurres agreed to continue as editor of Fontes until 1983, Gertraut Haberkamp, François Lesure, Malcolm Turner appointed associate editors, Bodil Foss appointed co-editor for public library matters.
1982
July 4-10, Brussels, Belgium. Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Music Information Centres Branch (William Elias); Bibliography Commission PG on Editing and Publishing Contemporary Music (William Elias); Cataloguing Commission (Brian Redfern), PG on Classification (Kurt Dorfmüller), PG on Computer Cataloguing (Patrick Mills), PG on ISBD(PM) (Heinz Lanzke), PG on ISBD(A) (Richard Andrewes), PG on UNIMARC (Joan Colquhoun) - New National Branch: New Zealand branch now independent of Australia.
1983
May 8-13, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Cataloguing Commission (Lenore Coral) - Elections/Board: Anders Lönn, president; Brian Redfern, past-president; Maria Calderisi, Heinz Werner, Nanna Schiödt, János Kárpáti, vice-presidents; Neil Ratliff, secretary general; Wolfgang Rehm, treasurer - Other matters: Committees to study future of the IAML Library and the establishment of IAML Archives; Imago Musicae, new publication sponsored by RIdIM; need to improve IAML presence in the Third World discussed; IAML and IMC cooperate on the Music in the Life of Man project, a multi-volume history of the world's musics (Barry Brook); continued representation on IFLA Standing Committees: Section on Bibliography (Maria Calderisi), Section on Cataloguing (Lenore Coral), Section on Library Schools and Other Training Aspects (Don L. Roberts).
1984
September 2-8, Como, Italy. Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Research Libraries Branch (Susan Sommer); Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions (Robert Jones); Public Libraries Branch (Bent Christiansen); Broadcasting Libraries Branch (Lucas van Dijck); Bibliography Commission (Joachim Jaenecke), PG on Archives (Bruce Wilson); Cataloguing Commission PG on Classification (Judith Kaufman); Commission on Service and Training (Marsha Berman), PG on Universal Availability of Publications (Thomas F. Heck); IAML/IASA Committee on Music and Sound Archives (Wolfgang Krueger); Ad hoc IAML Archives Committee (Nanna Schiødt) - Elections/Board: Don L. Roberts appointed treasurer to succeed Wolfgang Rehm in 1985.
1985
September 8-13, Berlin, German Democratic Republic: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Cataloging Commission PG on Authority Structure for Uniform Titles (Alison Hall); Commission on Service and Training PG on Statistics (Sue Clegg) - Other matters: Revised Preliminary Rules of Procedure; IAML Archives to be maintained by Musikaliska akademiens bibliotek in Stockholm.
1986
August 10-15, Stockholm, Sweden. Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Music Information Centres Branch (Rogier Starreveld); Broadcasting Libraries Branch changed to Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Branch; Cataloguing Commission PG on Classification change to PG on Classification and Indexing (Ann Schuursma); Publications Committee (Catherine Massip) - Elections/Board: Maria Calderisi Bryce, president; Bernhard Huys, Catherine Massip, Svetlana Sigida, Malcolm Turner, vice-presidents; Neil Ratliff, secretary general; Don L. Roberts, treasurer - Honorary Members: Wolfgang and Helga Rehm - Publications: Brian Redfern to succeed André Jurres. as editor of Fontes - Other matters: Treasurer's office moved from Kassel to Evanston, Illinois; Constitution Committee (Heinz Werner) continues to. re-examine of the constitution; informal Gifts & Exchange programme established; Transfer of IAML Archives to Stockholm approved.
1987
June 21-26, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Public Libraries (Ken Nein); Research Libraries (Michael Ochs); Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries (Finn Kaisner); Bibliography Commission PG on Hofmeister XIX (Neil Ratliff), PG on Archives (David Day); Cataloguing Commission WG on ISBD(NBM) (Lenore Coral) concluded its work; RISM: Commission mixte and the Advisory Research Committee amalgamated; Elections/Board: Veslemöy Heintz appointed secretary general to succeed Neil Ratliff at the close of the Amsterdam meeting - Membership: 1943 members in 40 countries - Other matters: Malcolm Turner agreed to index Council minutes back to 1978.
1988
September 4-9, Tokyo, Japan: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Bibliography Commission PG on Editing and Publishing Contemporary Music discontinued - Elections/Board: Don Roberts appointed treasurer for a further two year term - Membership: 1947 members - Other matters: IAML Library closed; IAML Archive transferred from Paris to Stockholm; new IAML brochure produced (in English).
1989
August 27 - September 1, Oxford, England: Congress - New Commissions or Changes: Commission on Archives (David Day); Bibliography Commission PG on Archives discontinued; Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions (Agostina Zecca Laterza.); Cataloguing Commission WG on Uniform titles for anonymous music other than liturgical (Mireille Geering), PG on Classification and Indexing completed is work and dissolved, WG on ISBD(PM) concluded its work in 1989; RISM series C working group (Charles Lindahl); Publications Committee (Lenore Coral) - Elections/Board: Catherine Massip, president; Maria Calderisi, past-president; Lenore Coral, Julius Hulek, Knud Ketting, Wolfgang Krueger, vice-presidents; Veslemöy Heintz, secretary general; Don L. Roberts, treasurer - Honorary Members: André Jurres, Barry Brook - Membership: ca. 1800, decrease mainly due to loss of UK members - Other matters: New Constitution and new Rules of Procedure adopted; decision retain Constitution Committee (Heinz Werner); The International Organisation for Standards (ISO) Technical Committee 46 planning work on an International Standard Music Number(ISMN) (Anders Lönn); IMC project Music in the Life of Man changed its name to The Universe of Music: a History (Barry Brook).
1990
July 8-13, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Music Information Centres Branch (Nancy Clarke), Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries (Helen Faulkner); Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions (Michèle Lancelin); Public Libraries (Maria Nyéki); Research Libraries Branch (Hugh Cobbe); Commission on Archives WG on Archive and Manuscript Control (David Day); Bibliography Commission (John Roberts); Cataloguing Commission (Anders Lönn); Commission on Service and Training (Wolfgang Krueger), WG on Statistics has concluded its work; IAML Archives Committee is dissolved - Elections/Board: Don Roberts appointed treasurer by Council for another two year term - National Groups: The two German national branches will merge; Swiss branch reorganised (Dorothea Baumann) - Membership: 1852 members - Other matters: IAML becomes a member of the International Council on Archives.
1991
August 11-16, Prague, Czechoslovakia: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Music Information Centres Branch dissolved and replaced by a new Provisional Branch for Music Documentation Centres (Veslemöy Heintz); Bibliography Commission WG on Hofmeister XIX (Chris Banks); Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries (Helen Faulkner); Archives Commission WG on the AMC Format (David Day); Cataloguing Commission (James P. Cassaro), WG on Uniform Titles for Anonymous Music other than Liturgical changed its name to WG on Uniform Titles for Anonymous Music Manuscipt Collections other than Liturgical; Commission for Service and Training PG on Statistics (Sue Clegg) has prepared guidelines for music library statistics; Provisional Subject Commission on AV-materials - National Groups: German Democratic Republic branch, founded May 29, 1959, dissolved December 5, 1990 to merge with the former BRD Branch - Membership: 1866 members - Publications: Susan Sommer appointed new editor of Fontes; IAML representatives named to editorial committee of Documenta Musicologica (Joachim Jaenecke, Hugh Cobbe and John Roberts); Klaus Keil replaced Joachim Schlichte as RSM editor - Other matters: the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC) founded; new RISM Board elected: Harald Heckmann, president; François Lesure, vice-presiden; Dieter Albert, treasurer; Helmut Rösing, secretary; Kurt Dorfmüller, Wolfgang Rehm, members at large; Barry S Brook nominated as a candidate for the IMC Executive Committee; IFLA International Standard Bibliographic Description - Printed Music (ISBD-PM) has been published in English; ISO text for the ISMN standard finished but not yet voted upon.
1992
August 30 - September 4, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Congress - Elections/Board: Don L. Roberts, president; Catherine Massip, past-president; Blanka Cervinkova, Hugh Cobbe, Lenore Coral, Wolfgang Kreuger, vice-presidents; Veslemöy Heintz, secretary general; Pamela Thompson appointed treasurer - Honorary Member: Kurt Dorfmüller - National Groups: South African Music Libraries Association (SAMLA) considered for national group status - Other matters: Malcolm Lewis appointed IAML liason with the European Community; IAML representatives appointed to the RIPM Advisory Board (Veslemöy Heintz, Imogen Fellinger, Maria Calderisi); guidelines for music library statistics prepared by the PG on Statistics (Sue Clegg) accepted by Council.
1993
August 8-13, Helsinki, Finland: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Archives and Music Documenation Centres Branch (Inger Enquist); former Archives Commission WG on the AMC Format has completed its task and is dissolved; Public Libraries (Heikki Poroila); Commission on Audio-Visual Materials (David Sommerfield); WG on Copyright (Malcolm Lewis); WG for revising the Directory of Research Libraries Western Europe (Elizabeth Davis); Constitution Committee (Anders Lönn ) - Elections/Board: Pamela Thompson succeeded Don Roberts as treasurer at the beginning of the year - National Groups: Spanish IAML-branch established, AEDOM Asociación Española de Documentación Musical (Jon Bagüés); following political changes, Czechoslovakian branch split into two separate bodies; Czech Branch ( Blanka Cervinková) and Slovak Branch (Emanuel Muntag); recently-established Union of Music Collections will function as the Estonian IAML Branch; IAML has now 20 national branches - Membership: more than 1900 members in 51 countries - Publications: new publisher for Fontes is A-R Editions in Madison, Wisconsin - Other matters: IAML will join the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) in 1994); Plenary session on outreach activities and an outreach fund established by Council; Anders Lönn will explore the possibility of setting up an electronic bulletin board for the association.
1994
July 22-27, Ottawa, Canada: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Cataloguing Commission WG on the Core Bibliographic Record for Music and Sound Recordings (Anders Cato) - Elections/Board: Alison Hall appointed Secretary General, beginning her four year term after the congress in Elsinor - New National Group: Estonia (Avo Kartul) - Membership: 1929 members in 45 countries - Other matters: IAML-L launched, residing on a host at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
1995
June 18-23, Elsinor, Denmark: Congress - Elections/Board: Veslemöy Heintz, president; Don L. Roberts, past-president; Hugh Cobbe, Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi, Joachim Jaenecke, John Roberts, vice-presidents; Alison Hall, secretary general; Pamela Thompson, treasurer - Membership: 1962 members in 51 countries (including memberships donated as part of IAML Outreach) - Other matters: Susan Sommer reappointed editor of Fontes for a further three-year period; complimentary subscriptions of Fontes sent to eight developing countries to promote Outreach; Catherine Massip appointed vice-president of RISM upon retirement of Francois Lesure; IAML homepage in preparation (Anders Lönn, Julie Crawley, John Wagstaff).
1996
September 1-6, Perugia, Italy: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Archives and Music Documenation Centres Branch WG on the Registration of Music Archives (Judy Tsou); Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Branch (Kauko Karjalainen); Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Branch (Federica Riva); Public Libraries (Kirsten Voss Eliassen); Research Libraries Branch (Ann Kersting); Commission on Audio-Visual Materials (Thomas Gerwin); Bibliography Commission (John Howard); Commission on Service and Training (Mary Kay Duggan); IAML members of the RILM Commission Mixte: Barry Brook, Lenore Coral, Richard Andrewes, Susanne Staral and Teresa Abejon; IAML/IASA Committee on Music and Sound Archives, president Ulf Scharlau (IASA), IAML members Wolfgang Krueger and David Sommerfield; Copyright Committee (Anne Le Lay) - Other matters: IAML Constitution printed in Fontes 1996:4; two new RIdIM committees established (UK and Switzerland); responsibility for IAML Home Page assumed by Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi.
1997
August 31 - September 5, Geneva, Switzerland: Conference - Elections/Board: Martie Severt appointed Treasurer for a four-year term beginning at the end of 1998 - New National Groups: Croatian branch is in its second year of organizing itself as an official national branch; Music Library Section established within the Russian Library Association - Membership: 2003 members in 58 countries - Other matters: Slovakian RIdIM group is founded; Constitution Committee (Anders Lönn) working on Rules of Procedure; Inger Enquist appointed IAML Archivist.
1998
June 21-26, San Sebastian, Spain: Congress - Elections/Board: Pamela Thompson, president; Veslemöy Heintz, past-president; Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi, Joachim Jaenecke, John Roberts, Kirsten Voss-Eliasson, vice-presidents; Alison Hall, secretary general; Martie Severt, treasurer.
1999
July 18-23, Wellington, New Zealand: Conference - New Commissions or Changes: Archives and Music Documentation Centres Branch (Judy Tsou); Bibliography Commission (Susanne Staral); Cataloguing Commission (Anders Cato), WG on Music in UNIMARC (Anders Cato); Commission on Audio Visual Materials (Antony Gordon);Copyright Committee (Anne Le Lay); Information Technology (IT) Committee (Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi) - Other matters: IAML Outreach Fund used for first time to subsidize travel to attend conference; first draft Electronic Newsletter on the IAML web page (ed. Alison Hall); John Wagstaff appointed editor of Fontes beginning in 2001.
2000
August 6-11, Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Conference - New Commissions: Constitution Committee (Richard Chesser) - New National Group: Russia (Emilia Rassina) - Other matters: ISO WG on Library Statistics (IAML liaison, Lenore Coral).