On 17 November I had the pleasure to attend parts of the Journée professionnelle de l'AIBM while I was in Paris. The meeting took place in Cité de la musique Philharmonie de Paris and more than fifty people attended (not all of them IAML members, though). It was a great opportunity for me to get acquainted with several members of the French IAML branch.

We are deeply sad to inform you that our esteemed colleague Harald Heckmann passed away on Sunday, 5 November 2023, after a serious illness.

Fontes Artis Musicae, the quarterly journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), seeks an Assistant Editor. 

IAML Hungary held its autumn meeting on 11 October 2023 in Budapest, at the House of Music, Hungary. The professional day provided the framework for the celebration of the association’s belated 50th anniversary.

We left for the congress with my colleague Blanka Ellederová a few days earlier, so that we could take part in an interesting tour of London libraries, which was also organized by our brilliant and skilled colleagues from England. It was Friday's Pre-congress Tour.