Before the conference in Antwerp I had the great pleasure of visiting three member institutions in Germany: the Abteilung Dokumentation und Archive des Westdeutschen Rundfunk in Köln + the Schumannhaus and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. I have very fond memories of the friendly way I was welcomed and how enthusiastically the colleagues showed me their respective library/archive.

I have asked my hosts to write a few lines describing their institution. This is the presentation of Katrin Reinhold, head librarian of the Schumannhaus:

From the AMS we have received the following announcement:

The UR Institute for Popular Music Virtual Conference

The following message has reached us via MLA-L:

Members of the Music Library Association will be presenting a webinar on cataloging classical music audio recordings using RDA.  The webinar is scheduled for October 2, 2014, 2:30-4pm (EST). This is the third and final RDA music cataloging workshop which MLA will present in collaboration with ALA.

This post is by Jim Cowdery and originally appeared on RILM's blog, Bibliolore. It is reprinted here with kind permission.

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.