Tomorrow (Friday, May 23) is the last day to apply for membership in the newest of IAML's committees, the Advocacy Committee, chaired by Pam Thompson.

The Advocacy Committee is charged with pro-actively advocating the importance of music libraries, archives and documentation centres. The purpose of the committee is to ensure that IAML is a responsive and effective advocate for, especially, its member institutions, but also for other national and international organisations.

Les Archives numériques de la Révolution française (ANRF) sont issues d’une collaboration de plusieurs années entre les bibliothèques de l’Université de Stanford et la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), visant à créer une version numérisée des principales sources d’étude de la Révolution française et à les mettre à disposition de la communauté académique internationale.

IFLA Management and Marketing section and the Bibliothèque publique d’information present “Libraries as media? ”, a global discussion of how, strategically and collaboratively, libraries are producing and creating media content in the new digital age.
Time : August 15th, 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Centre Pompidou / Bibliothèque publique d’information (Bpi), Paris

Foremost international music encyclopedia to be published online

MGG Online: The music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) goes digital.

In 2014 the publishers Bärenreiter and J.B. Metzler entered a long-term partnership with Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), publisher of the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database of writings about music. MGG Online will include the content of the second edition of MGG (1994–2008) as well as subsequent updates, revisions, and additions.

In a blog post from the National Library of New Zealand Roger Flury (IAML Past President) talks to Chris Szekely (Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library) about his time in New Zealand and his discographical interests.