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The following is a group congress diary from the RISM Zentralredaktion (Frankfurt, Germany):
Klaus Keil: Opernsammlung in der Nationalbibliothk
Guido Kraus: Meine schönsten Erfahrungen in Riga
Vivian Tompkins: Digitizing Music Materials
Jennifer Ward: Riga, City of Music
This entry is by Sara Brown (New Zealand), an accompanying person at the 2017 Congress in Riga: Riga and the IAML Congress were a real treat for me. I was there as an ‘accompanying person’ with my partner, Rhys (thanks to Roger Flury and David Vine for the image of carrying around a piano, ready to play at a moment’s notice…). Getting to Riga was an adventure as the distance from Dunedin, New Zealand to Riga is about 17405 km in a straight line according to Google Maps.
Marianna Zsoldos, Head of the Music and Foreign Language Department at Bródy Sándor Public Library (Eger, Hungary), has photos and reflections on the IAML Congress in Riga.
Photographs from the IAML 2017 congress in Riga are now online from IAML's Flickr page. Enjoy these photos, which are courtesy of the National Library of Latvia.
Elections for IAML’s Institutional and Subject Sections officers were held during the congress week in Riga and the following results were announced by the Secretary General during the General Assembly meeting.
Chair: Marie Cornaz, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels(re-election)
Vice-Chair: Marie-Gabrielle Soret, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Secretary: Hanna Bias, Library of the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy, Katowice
