In honor of International Archives Day, Jon Bagüés has written an announcement concerning ERESBIL-Basque Archives of Music: Shortly after its coming into being in 1974, the Basque Music Archive (ERESBIL) began collecting Basque composers’ fonds preserved by their families. The first of the fonds, concerning Norberto Almandoz and received in 1977, arrived on the express request of being kept as a single physical unit. This peculiarity, which at that time was an unusual practice among libraries, initiates a trend that, later on, turns into a standard, being the starting point of the creation of one of the main sections of ERESBIL, the archive’s fonds section.

We are pleased to inform you that the final version of the Congress programme is available online: https://iaml2017.lnb.lv/programme/

Have you registered for the IAML congress in Riga yet? It is only one month away, from June 18-22, 2017.

In less than a year after the formation of the Greek Branch of IAML, its annual conference was successfully carried out on April 21-22, 2017 in Athens at the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”.

Mari Itoh (Aichi Shukutoku University), of IAML Japan and the Japanese corresponding editor for Fontes, was recently a visiting researcher at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart and paid a visit to the WDR Notenarchiv in Cologne--the music archive of the West German Broadcasting Corporation. Here is a summary of her brief stay, followed by a summary of the visit in German by Katharina Jerusalem (WDR intern).