Congress Diary / Kongresstagebuch / Journal de bord du Congrès

Antony Gordon: Here I am at my 24th conference/congress in Riga. Being retired from the British Library Sound Archive and having finished my two three-year terms on the Board last year at the Rome Congress, I felt entitled to take a rather more relaxed approach. The journey to Riga formed part of the overall experience for us so this is inevitably starts out like a travelogue. If you're not interested in train travel you should skip the next paragraph.

Terveisiä Riiasta! Outi Valon matkaraportti IAML-kongressista 2017

Matkustin kesäkuussa 2017 Suomen Musiikkikirjastoyhdistyksen myöntämän apurahan avustamana Riikaan, jossa järjestettiin kansainvälinen musiikkikirjastojen, -arkistojen ja kulttuuri-instituutioiden kongressi. IAML Riga tarjosi hienon näyteikkunan siihen, millaiset asiat kentällä mietityttävät, mitä tutkitaan ja mistä keskustellaan.

The following is a group congress diary from the RISM Zentralredaktion (Frankfurt, Germany):     
Klaus Keil: Opernsammlung in der Nationalbibliothk 
Guido Kraus: Meine schönsten Erfahrungen in Riga 
Vivian Tompkins: Digitizing Music Materials
Jennifer Ward: Riga, City of Music

This entry is by Sara Brown (New Zealand), an accompanying person at the 2017 Congress in Riga:  Riga and the IAML Congress were a real treat for me. I was there as an ‘accompanying person’ with my partner, Rhys (thanks to Roger Flury and David Vine for the image of carrying around a piano, ready to play at a moment’s notice…). Getting to Riga was an adventure as the distance from Dunedin, New Zealand to Riga is about 17405 km in a straight line according to Google Maps.

Marianna Zsoldos, Head of the Music and Foreign Language Department at Bródy Sándor Public Library (Eger, Hungary), has photos and reflections on the IAML Congress in Riga.