Dagbok från New York Musikforskare, musikbibliotekarier och musikarkivarier från organisationerna IAML och IMS träffades i New York den 21 – 26 juni 2015 för en konferens. Den höll till i Juilliard School nära Lincoln Center. Temat för konferensen var digitalisering "Musicresearch in the digital age". Tack vare Anders Lönns resestipendium kunde jag få åka.
(Text by Pauline Sjöberg, Gothenburg University Library)
Herbert Blomstedt, one of the world’s pre-eminent conductors, has donated his collection to Gothenburg University Library. The opening ceremony will take place on Thursday 21 May. Herbert Blomstedt talks about his lifelong commitment, collecting books, entitled Lying head to toe with Shakespeare.
The Herbert Blomstedt Collection is substantial, filling around 500 metres of shelf space. It consists of music literature, sheet music, manuscripts and facsimile editions of old manuscripts as well as works of fiction.
Welcome to this year’s first Musikbiblioteksnytt, The Swedish IAML Magazine.
Jürgen Diet, Project Manager at the Music Department of the Bavarian State Library in Munich and President of AIBM (the German IAML Branch), delivered the course Music in Digital Libraries and Archives, in Gothenburg 7-8 November. The two-day course was a shorter version of an international summer course arranged by the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart, where Jürgen Diet is teaching the courses Digital Music Libraries and Digital Music Archiving within the master programme Library and Information Management.
Submitted by Katharina Hofmann (Head of the library of the Musikhochschule Franz Liszt in Weimar, spokeswoman of the Arbeitsgrupp Musikhochschulbibliotheken of AIBM - the German IAML Branch)
