IAML ANNUAL CONFERENCE

EDINBURGH AUGUST 6-11 2000

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SATURDAY AUGUST 5

10:00 - 13:00    IAML Board (members only)
14:00 - 18:00    IAML Board (members only)
 

SUNDAY AUGUST 6

9:30 - 17:00 Registration

10:00 - 12:00     IAML Council 1st session. Observers are welcome to attend.
14:00 - 16:00     IAML Council 1st session. Observers are welcome to attend.

16:30 - 17:00     Special introductory session for newcomers
18:00                  Opening Ceremony
20:00                 Buffet and evening entertainment

 Social Programme  Programme Social    Unterhaltungsprogramm

MONDAY AUGUST 7

09:15 - 10:45

• How to swindle a composer. Speaker: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

 Presented by the Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Branch, Chair: Kauko Karjalainen (Yleisradio Finnish Broadcasting Company, Helsinki).

11:15 - 12:45

• Verzeichnis der Musiknachlässe in Deutschland. Speaker: Joachim Jaenecke (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). Digital Scriptorium, an illuminated window to the past. Speaker: Judy Tsou (University of Washington, Seattle, WA). The MPA Catalogue of Printed Music and the practicalities of administering ISMNs. Speaker: Lois Clark (Music Publishers’ Association, London). International Standard identifiers; an update. Speaker: Hartmut Walravens (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin).

Presented by the Bibliography Commission. Chair: Susanne Staral (Staatliches Institut fur Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
 
• Sound Archives and Sound Recordings in the Baltic Republics. Sound Archives in Lithuania. Speaker: Antanas Auškalnis (Lithuanian Academy of Music, Vilnius).  Sound recordings in Latvia: the current potential for recording Latvian music. Speaker: Ieva Cepurniece (Library of Riga music library salon "Tilts").

 Presented by the Commission on Audio Visual Materials Chair: Antony Gordon (British Library National Sound Archive, London)
 
• Working Group on Music in UNIMARC. Anders Cato (Statens Musikbibliotek, Stockholm) Un nouveau système de description instrumentale et vocale pour le catalogage des documents musicaux / A new system of instrumental and vocal description for cataloguing musical documents (Cdmc, Cite de la musique, IRCAM). Speaker: Isabelle Gauchet (Cdmc, Paris).

Working meeting.

14:15 - 15:45

• Archives in the United Kingdom. Access to archives: a programme to provide a joint catalogue for English record offices. Speaker: David Thomas (Public Record Office, London). A source of great delight: Music in the BBC’s written archives. Speaker: Jacquie Kavanagh (BBC: Written Archives Centre, Caversham). “Mildred”. Speaker: Peter Linnitt (BBC Information and Archives, London). Introducing the British Library’s online catalogue for manuscripts. Speaker: Chris Banks (British Library, London).

Presented by the Archives and Music Centres Documentation Branch Chair: Judy Tsou
(University of Washington, Seattle, WA).
 
• Copyright. A delicate balance. Current copyright issues in U.S. Conservatory libraries. Speaker: Jane Gottlieb (Juilliard School of Music, New York, NY).  Copyright issues in British conservatoire libraries.  Speaker: Katherine Hogg (Music Libraries Online, London).  Le droit de copie et les conservatoires en France.  Speaker: Anne Le Lay (Bibliothèque du CNR, Boulogne).

Presented by the Copyright Committee, Chair: Anne Le Lay (Bibliothèque du CNR,
Boulogne) and the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Branch Chair: Federica Riva
(Conservatorio di Musica “A. Boito”, Parma).
 
• Working Group on Music Periodicals. Chair: Imogen Fellinger (Munich).

Working meeting.

16:15 - 17:45

• Databases and the IAML web site: instructions and ideas for a new opportunity.  Open working meeting.  Presented by the Information Technology (IT) Committee.  Chair: Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi (Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali, Milan).

 
• Public Libraries’ Impact on Education for Music Librarianship. Net Services: an introduction to Folkebibliotekernes Netguide (annotated resource guide). Speaker: Susanne From, Helsingør Bibliotek). Music Information Services at the virtual University of Library and Information Studies, Stuttgart. Speaker: Wolfgang Krueger (Hochschule für Bibliothekswesen, Stuttgart).

Presented by the Commission on Service and Training.  Session Chair: Tine Vind (Danmarks Biblioteksskole, København) and the Public Libraries Branch Chair: Kirsten Voss Eliasson (Herlev Bibliotek, Smørum).
 
• Bequests and Special Collections in libraries of the United Kingdom. Gifts, purchases, the lottery and the Treasury: 25 years of major music acquisitions at the British Library. Speaker: Hugh Cobbe (British Library, London). Bequests and special music collections in the University Library of Cambridge. Speaker: Richard Andrewes (Cambridge University). Elgar letters in the archives of the Royal Northern College of Music. Speaker: Geoffrey Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester).

Presented by the Research Libraries Branch, Chair: Ann Barbara Kersting-Meuleman
(Stadt-und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.)

18:00
Pre-concert tour (admission by ticket)
20:00
Concert (admission by ticket)

 Social Programme  Programme Social    Unterhaltungsprogramm

TUESDAY AUGUST 8

09:15 - 10:45

• Music and Disability: Plenary session I. Touching the score: recent developments in access to music for blind and partially-sighted people. Speaker: Roger Firman (Royal National Institute for the Blind, London).  Music and disability: electronic performance instruments and therapy.  Speaker: Ross Kirk (York University, York)

Chair: Antony Gordon (British Library National Sound Archve, London)

11.15 - 12.45

• Music and Disability: Plenary session II. The music of Mozart: creating a learning environment. Speaker: Anne Savan (Aberdare, Wales). Music as therapy in war-torn areas of the Balkans. Speaker: Nigel Osborne (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh).

Chair: Roger Taylor (County Music & Drama Library, Yeovil)

13:00

• Lunch for the representatives of National Branches, the IAML President, Treasurer and Secretary General, and the Editor of Fontes Artis Musicae.


14.15 - 15.45

• Projects in Bibliography. ‘Men of Harlech’, Mathias and manuscript collections; a new bibliographical approach to Welsh music. Speaker: Wyn Thomas. (University of Wales, Bangor). George Thomson: ‘the most intricate bibliographical enigma’. Speakers: Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow), Marjorie Rycroft (University of Glasgow), Warwick Edwards (University of Glasgow).

 Presented by the Research Libraries Branch, Chair: Ann Barbara Kersting-Meuleman (Stadt- und Universitätsbibliotek Frankfurt am Main) and the Bibliography Commission, Chair: Susanne Staral (Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
 
• The history and the results of RidIM.

Thirty years of RIdIM work in Paris.  Speaker: Florence Gétreau (Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires/CNRS, Paris)
Reserach Centre for Music iconography, New York, at 2000.  Speaker: Zdravko Blazekovic (Research Center for Music Iconography, City University of New York)
The database for the Italian catalogue of musical iconography.  Speaker: Mariagrazia Carlone and Elena Ferrari Barrassi (Università di Pavia, Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia musicale, Cremona)
Activities in the RIdIM Center of the Federal Republic of Germany.  Speaker: Armin Brinzing (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; Répertoire international des sources musicales, München)
Recent work on musical iconography at the State Central Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.  Speaker: Ksenia Korobliova (Ministerstvo Kul'tury Rossiiskoi Federatsii - Ministry of Culture of The Russian Federation, Moskva)
Chair: Florence Gétreau (Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires/CNRS, Paris)
 
• Continuing Education for Music Librarians and Staff.  The work of IAML-UK’s Courses and Education Committee. Speaker: Liz Hart (London Borough of Barnet Libraries, London). ‘Okay, so which one do I use?’: RILM, IIMP, MI; a comparison of three online indexes for music. Speakers: Leslie Troutman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Alan Green (Ohio State University)

Presented by the Commission on Service and Training. Chair: Mary Kay Duggan
(University of California, Berkeley)

16.15 - 17:45

• RIPM on the Internet and CD-ROM. The first demonstration. Chair: H. Robert Cohen (University of Maryland)
• Working Group on the Registration of Music Archives. Chair: Judy Tsou (University of Washington, Seattle, WA).

    Working meeting.
 
• RILM Commission Mixte. Chair: Catherine Massip (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).

Working meeting.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9

09:15 - 10:45

• Situation der Rundfunk (Musik) in Deutschland 10 Jahre nach der Vereinigung und die Aufgaben eines Musikarchivs im Jahr 2000 am Beispiel des MusikCenters des Westdeutschen Rundfunks (evtl. Mit Vorstellung der neuen Datenbank ARCHIMEDES). Speaker: Jutta Lambrecht (WDR Schall- und Notenarchiv MusikCenter, Köln). Composers.com: a hitch-hiker's guide to music publishing. Speaker: Janis Susskind (Boosey & Hawkes, London). Oscar Peterson: a jazz sensation. Speaker: S. Timothy Maloney (National Library of Canada, Ottawa).

Presented by the Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Branch Chair: Kauko Karjalainen (Yleisradio - Finnish Broadcasting Company, Helsinki)
 
• Great Britain Online.  Encore!  Speaker: Malcolm Jones (Birmingham).  Music Libraries Online: a project. Speaker: Marian Hogg, MLO Project Administrator. Ensemble. Speaker: Pam Thompson (Royal College of Music, London).

Presented by the Cataloguing Commission Chair: Anders Cato (Statens Musikbibliotek, Stockholm)
 
• RILM. Business meeting for RILM national committee members.

Chair: Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie..

11:15 - 12:45

• Service for students.

The new library of the Estonian Academy of Music. Speaker: Anneli Sepp (Eesti Muusikaakadeemia Raamatukogu - Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn).
Organising services for students in music libraries in Vilnius.  Speaker: Egle Krisciunaite (Lietuvos muzikos akademija - Lithuanian Academy of Music, Vilnius)
The wind of change: traditions and innovations in service to readers of the Taneyev Research Music Library of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.  Speaker: Emilia Rassina (Moskovskaia gosudarstvennaia Konservatoriia imeni P.I. Chaikovskogo - Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, Moskva)
From manuscript to music stand, or, Research and performance in a conservatoire library. Speaker: Peter Horton (Royal College of Music, London).
Presented by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Branch Chair: Federica Riva (Conservatorio di Musica “A. Boito”, Parma).
 
• Public libraries in the UK.  Breaking up is hard to do: the effects of local government reorganisation in music library services in the UK. Speakers: Malcolm Lewis (Nottingham City Libraries, Nottingham), Margaret Roll (Buckinghamshire County Libraries, Aylesbury), Chris Muncy (Reading Libraries, Reading). Beyond boundaries: music and the People's Network.  Speaker: Susi Woodhouse (Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, London).

Presented by the Public Libraries Branch. Chair: Kirsten Voss-Eliasson (Smørum, Denmark)
 
• RISM. News from RISM. Speaker: Klaus Keil (RISM Zentralredaktion, Frankfurt am Main). RISM in the UK. Speaker: Hugh Cobbe (British Library, London).

Chair: Klaus Keil (RISM Zentralredaktion, Frankfurt am Main).

14:00  Departure for Afternoon Excursions

14:00 – 17:00
Afternoon Excursions:      Social Programme       Programme Social  Unterhaltungsprogramm

19:00  Malt Whisky Tasting (admission by ticket)

THURSDAY AUGUST 10

09:15 - 10:45

• Dublin Core and Metadata. Five centuries of Scottish music.  Speaker: Catherine Owen (Performing Arts Data Service, Glasgow). The Canadian Music Centre Digital Library. Speaker: Peter Higham (Mount Allison University, Sackville NB). Metadata with a focus on authority control issues for music. Speaker: Sherry Vellucci (St. John’s University, New York).

Presented by the Cataloguing Commission Chair: Anders Cato (Statens Musikbibliotek, Stockholm)
 
• Working Group on Hofmeister XIX. Chair: Chris Banks (British Library, London)

Working meeting
 
• Music Periodicals  Russkaya Muzykal'naya Gazeta (The Russian Musical Gazette) (1894-1918): a brief account of its history and contents. Speaker: Gerald R. Seaman (St. Antony's College, Oxford University).

A venerable survivor: some historical notes on the journal 'Music and Letters'. Speaker: John Wagstaff (Oxford University). Indian Music Periodicals published during the last two hundred years. Speaker: Sisir Kumar Mukherjee (Madral,India).
Presented by the Working Group on Music Periodicals.  Chair: Imogen Fellinger (München)

Musical Scores on the Internet with Sibelius Software. Speaker: Ben Finn (Sibelius Software Ltd, Cambridge).  Chair: Antony Gordon (British Library National Sound Archive, London).
A demonstration

11.15 - 12.45

• The British career of Paul Robeson. Speaker: Laura Dankner (Loyola University, New Orleans, LA). The IRCAM Multimedia Library: a digital music library. Speaker: Michael Fingerhut (IRCAM, Paris). “We don’t write songs. We write records” : the concept of the musical work in modern popular music.  Speaker: Per-Erik Brolinson (Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm).

Presented by the Commission on Audio Visual Materials. Chair: Antony Gordon (British Library National Sound Archive, London)
 
•  Archival Registration Projects.   Music Archives in Sweden. Speaker: Inger Enquist (Statens Musikbibliotek, Stockholm). Germany’s registration project. Speaker: Joachim Jaenecke (Staatsbibliotek zu Berlin).  Report on the Archives Registration Project.  Speaker: Judy Tsou (University of Washington, Seattle, WA).

Presented by the Working Group on the Registration of Music Archives. Chair: Judy Tsou (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
 
• Fontes Artis Musicae.

  Chair: Susan T. Sommer (New York Public Library, New York, NY)
Meeting of the editorial board.

13:00

• Lunch for the representatives of the French Organising Committee, Chairpersons of the Professional Branches, Subject Commissions, Working Groups, Committees, R-Projects, the President, Secretary General, and the Editor of Fontes Artis Musicae.


14:15 - 15:45

• IAML Board. (Members only).
• RISM. Methods of Cataloguing Series A/II Music Manuscripts; session for RISM National groups.

Chair: Klaus Keil (RISM Zentralredaktion, Frankfurt am Main).
 
• Copyright Committee. Chair: Anne Le Lay (Bibliothèque du CNR, Boulogne).

Working meeting.

16:15 - 17:45

• Electronic Grove: a demonstration.  Speakers: John Tyrrell (Editor, New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd Edition, London) and Laura Macy (Publishing Director, New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd Edition, London)
• Working Group on Music in UNIMARC. Chair: Anders Cato (Statens Musikbibliotek, Stockholm).

Working meeting.

18:30  Civic Reception
Hosted by Grove's Dictionaries of Music

20:00  Concert (admission by ticket)

 Social Programme  Programme Social    Unterhaltungsprogramm

FRIDAY AUGUST 11

09:15 - 10:45

• Public Libraries and the Internet. A Danish subject gateway to music resources.

Speaker: Anne Ørbæk Jensen (Det Kongelige Bibliotek - The Royal Library, København). A presentation of the Stuttgart Music Library Homepage. Speaker: Gertraut Voss-Kruger (Stadbucherei, Stuttgart).
A presentation of the Herlev Music Library Homepage.  Speaker: Hans Henrik Skou (København)
MP3 and the Potential for Public Libraries.  Speaker: Stuart Boon (School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University)
Presented by the Public Libraries Branch.  Chair: Kirsten Voss Eliasson (Smørum)
 
• Working Group on Archival Registration. Chair: Judy Tsou (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

Working meeting.
 
• RILM. RILM in 2000. Speaker: Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (City University of New York). The rebirth of RILM (UK). Speaker: Sarah Hibberd (Royal Holloway, University of London).  Compatible diacritical plan script for RILM for Indian music literature - problems and perspectives.  Speaker: M. Hariharan (Bharathiar Centre for Performing and Fine Arts, Pondicherry)

Chair: Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (City University of New York, New York).

11:15 - 12:45

• IAML Council 2nd session. Observers are welcome to attend.


13:00

• Lunch for the Public Libraries Branch.


14:15 - 15:45

• Publications Committee. Chair: John Roberts (University of California, Berkeley).

Working meeting.
 
• RIdIM refondation. .

RIdIM refondation: an introduction.  Speaker: Catherine Massip (Bibliothèque nationale de la France, Paris)
L'iconographie musicale et internet au Musée de la musique à Paris.  Speaker: Patrice Verrier (Musée de la Musique, Paris)
Concerning words (Word Soup), numbers (Iconclass), and music-relevant picture retrievals in a polyglot web environment.  Speaker: Thomas heck (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)
The future of RIdIM: thoughts and suggestions.  Veslemöy Heintz (Statens Musikbibliotek, Stockholm)
Discussion.
Chair: Catherine Massip (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
 
• 16:15 - 17:45 Organ Flourish: John Kitchen (University Organist, University of Edinburgh). IAML Closing session.

19:15  Final Dinner (first coaches depart)

Post Conference Tours Excursions post-congres  Nach Konferenzausfluge