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.

Call for contributions: IMC World Forum on Music

Call for Contributions
The 5th IMC World Forum on Music: Sustaining Music, Engaging Communities

Dear IMC members,

After our earlier communications about the 5th IMC World Forum on Music, 21-24 November 2013 in Brisbane, Australia, we would like to invite you to suggest contributions to ensure the Forum will be the inspiring and broadly inclusive event it promises to become, covering all sectors of musical life on the planet.

Muziekcentrum van de Omroep library update from Martie Severt

The present MCO (Music Centre of Netherlands Radio: 3 orchestras, radio choir, music library, music education department) will cease to exist next year on August 1. There is a budget available after that date for the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Radio Choir. There is no budget for the Music Library.

Muziekcentrum van de Omroep library being dismantled

Recent plans by the Dutch government to dismantle the Broadcast Music Centre in Hilversum (which include abolishing the orchestra and chorus) may result in the disappearance of one of western Europe's largest sheet music libraries.

Unless independent funds can be raised by the MCO library in the next nine months, the scores will be sold to dealers or worse.  Around 5,000 have already been digitized, the rest will be lost.

Henry Vieuxtemps virtual exhibition

The Music Department of the Royal Library of Belgium holds the largest collection of scores by the famous nineteenth-century violinist and composer Henry Vieuxtemps. To revive this heritage the Royal Library of Belgium has launched (amongst others) an online exhibition on the life and works of Henry Vieuxtemps. The exhibition gives a chronological survey of his career and features numerous unpublished documents including autograph scores, letters and illustrations. Available languages: French and Dutch.

http://vieuxtemps.kbr.be

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