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.

Muziekcentrum van de Omroep library being dismantled

Gespeichert von Andrew Justice am 28 November, 2012 - 17:11

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

Gespeichert von Andrew Justice am 28 November, 2012 - 17:00

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 The exhibition gives a chronological survey of his career and features numerous unpublished documents including autograph scores, letters and illustrations.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

CAML's new mailing address

Gespeichert von Andrew Justice am 18 November, 2012 - 21:30

CAML has a new mailing address! The CAML Board would like to thank the University of Toronto Music Library for agreeing to serve as the postal address for CAML. Please update your address books:

Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres
c/o Music Library
University of Toronto
Edward Johnson Building
80 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, ON, M5S 2C5 CANADA

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