On 22 November 2024, the first snow fell in Hungary - and on the same day, IAML Hungary held its annual Autumn Professional Day in Kecskemét, at the Kodály Institute.

It is with sadness that we learned of the death on 12 October 2024 of our Belgian colleague and friend Bernard Huys (1934-2024), who served as IAML Vice-President from 1986 to 1989. He was also one of the driving forces behind RISM Belgium.

Digital scores are slowly becoming ubiquitous in the music studio and on stage. Adoption across music libraries, archives, and documentation centres varies widely, and now is a good time to dive into what is available and how these platforms work. In this session, we will review a number of the dominant digital scores platforms available to libraries supporting music study.

RILM cordially invites you to join us for the release of DEUMM Online on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, at 7:30 pm CET / 1:30 pm EST. Co-sponsored by the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica (ADUIM) and IAML-Italia, the event will take place in the Teatro Palladium auditorium in Rome, Italy.

Inspired by the many interesting congress diaries from Stellenbosch, I thought I would share another “diary”, but from a city situated slightly further up north, namely Oslo in Norway. I had the pleasure to visit three libraries there on 23-24 September: the Norwegian Academy of Music, the National Library and the Oslo Public Library (Deichmanske Bibliotek). My travel companions were Joakim Lilljegren and Niklas Persson, both colleagues at the Gothenburg University Library. We were joined by a music librarian from Istanbul, Güneş Çetinkaya Şerik, who works at the ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory - Music Library & Archive Centre.