The idea for the conference was to bring together music librarians, archivists, and documentation specialists from all of the Americas, with an emphasis on the inclusion of Latin American colleagues. MLA, in part with outreach funds left over from the joint IAML-IMS congress in New York in 2015, was able to invite and support colleagues from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In recognition of the importance of this meeting to IAML, the IAML Board decided to hold its mid-year meeting during the two days leading up to the conference. This enabled all of us on the Board to participate in the event and to reach out to these colleagues from Latin America. And it was successful. All Board members actively participated in the event and got to know many new colleagues from Latin America, and we were able to let them know about IAML and to welcome and encourage their participation in our association.

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Volume 64, Number 1 (January-March 2017) of Fontes Artis Musicae is now available online at http://www.iaml.info/efontes or https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35946.

Michelle Urberg shares her reflections of the MLA conference in Orlando, Florida: MLA 2017 in Orlando was my first MLA! I first heard about MLA many years ago from Scott Landvatter at the University of Chicago, where I was a graduate student employee in the Recordings Collection. Fast forward a few years: I found myself finishing library school and starting my first professional library position, with a strong desire to get involved in professional organizations to help support the field where I want to spend my career.

Treshani Perera shares her reflections of the MLA conference in Orlando, Florida: For my conference diary, I wanted to focus on two sessions with an archival emphasis, and one on music copyright issues...

IAML, the International Musicological Society (IMS), and the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) are co-sponsoring a confrence with New York University at Abu Dhabi from March 13 to 15, 2017. The title of the conference is Music As Cultural Heritage: Problems of Historiography, Ethnography, Ethics and Preservation.