Now You Can Discover Belgian Music from World War I - Digital Access

This post comes to us from Karen McAulay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Whittaker Library) and is posted here with kind permission:

The Royal Library of Belgium holds an interesting collection of music from the First World War, and the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project is widening access to it with its digitization project.

Frederic Lemmers, Head of Digitization programs at the Royal Library, gave a presentation about this project to music librarians at the IAML conference in Antwerp earlier this summer.  

• Read Frédéric Lemmers' presentation:  "Music & First World War within the collections of the Royal Library of Belgium"

Additionally, there are several collections of songbooks and music sheets from all parts of Europe, on the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project website, where they've been listed by ten European national libraries. (See also : www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu). 
Restricted access to the music corpus of the Royal Library of Belgium is also available HERE.