The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres encourages and promotes the activities of music libraries, archives and documentation centres to support and facilitate the realization of projects in music bibliography, music documentation and music library and information science at national and international levels.
We have received the following from Mari Itoh, President of IAML Japan:
We have to announce another sad piece of news less than six months after Dr. Kishimoto's passing. Emeritus professor Noriko Murai of Ferris University passed away on December 17, 2020.
The IAML Online Congress 2021 will take place from Monday 26 until Friday 30 July. The programme will feature a mixture of paper and poster sessions, panel discussions, and social hour sessions, as well as the General Assembly and other business meetings. The submission deadline is Wednesday 31 March 2021 (midnight UTC).
IAML is one of the signatories of the Open Letter "Include Culture in Your National Recovery Strategies and Reactivate Cultural Life in Europe".
We are one of 50 institutions that are part of the fascinating project "Music Makers Machines," which was launched last week on Google Arts & Culture.
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, with its wide-ranging impact on everyday lives and livelihoods, has inevitably focused attention on the challenges and opportunities of online communication and dissemination. The IAML Board has therefore started a series of online meetings on the theme "... in an Online Environment".
