Interessenten für einen beruflichen Aufenthalt in Musikbibliotheken und -sammlungen des In- und Auslandes erhalten auf der neu eingerichteten Webseite “Job Swapping” im Bereich “Ausbildung” nützliche Informationen zur Vorbereitung eines solchen Vorhabens und das Angebot einer “Tauschbörse” in Form von Inseraten “Biete/Suche”.
Die AIBM-Fortbildungskommission möchte damit – die Möglichkeiten der zunehmenden Internationalisierung nutzend – das Lifelong Learning International für Musikbibliothekare fördern.

Michael Fingerhut informed us:

According to Norman Lebrecht, the country house of George Enescu and his documents in the Enescu Museum in Bucharest are falling into dereliction (the house is even scheduled for demolition).
It is quite curious, since the museum appears to be included in the European Heritage List.

Quite sad indeed.

The Music Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France has just incorporated the information from its old card catalogue (authors/composers/anonymous) into the online general catalogue http://catalogue.bnf.fr.

This covers holdings entered into the catalogues of the library from the sixteenth century through 1991, when the card catalogue was closed.

Update from Laurence Decobert: 

From Michael Ochs, submitted on behalf of Lyle Davidson and Tina Blythe:

The American Institute for Verdi Studies (AIVS) announces the creation of the Martin Chusid Award for Verdi Studies to recognize an outstanding publication by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career.