UK Music Librarianship Conference 6-8 April (IAML UK and Ireland)

Had you considered music librarianship as a career?  Or do you work with music in libraries already?

Just a wee reminder that the registration deadline for full and day attendance of the music library conference in Edinburgh 6-8 April is tomorrow, 28 February 2018. 

A special offer for non-residential single-session is now being made avaible at £30 per single session. This may be of interest to colleagues in other related sectors like general librarianship and musicology. The draft programme is available on the IAML (Uk & Irl) website, www.iaml-uk-irl.org.

The deadline for single session attendance is 29 March 2018.

All Celts Together: Introducing the Welsh Music Archive!

Our Welsh colleagues have been sharing information about the Welsh Music Archive, so we thought we'd share this with our own readers:-

"You may be interested in our latest blog on Launching the Welsh Music Archive at the National Library of Wales.  At a special ceremony on Friday, 22 September, The National Library of Wales launched its Welsh Music Archive Programme in the presence of the folk music expert and Library benefactor, Phyllis Kinney...

"Here's a blogpost about it:- http://www.llgc.org.uk/blog/?p=15813

"The National Library of Wales not only preserves  the earliest written music from Wales, but also collects  the latest compositions and performances by our contemporary musicians. It is a growing resource; material is added regularly to our musical collections. The collection includes works by internationally renowned classical Welsh composers such as Grace Williams, Daniel Jones, Alun Hoddinott and William Mathias.

"And now there are brand new pages on the website for further information on The Welsh Music Archive, and also WelshTraditional Music "

Margaret Jones has also written a blogpost about the Welsh Music Archive for our professional association, the UK and Ireland branch of the International Association of Music Libraries.  You can read this here. 

So, that's Welsh music fairly and squarely on the map!  A very positive development.

Music Student? Might Music Librarianship Beckon? Meet IAML

http://iaml-uk-irl.org/

Two of our performing arts librarians, Karen and Catherine usually attend the Annual Study Weekend for music librarians in the UK and Ireland - it's organised by the national branch of IAML (the International Association of Music Libraries). This year it took place in Exeter.  (Next year, it's Edinburgh, which will be a lot easier for us to get to!)


Naturally, we picked up a few of the new leaflets about the association's activities.  We'll leave them at the issue desk for anyone interested.  And if they disappear fast, don't worry - you can look at the website, too!

http://iaml-uk-irl.org/

Finding Choral and Orchestral Sets in Other UK Libraries

If you ever look for orchestral sets in other libraries, then you need to know that IAML's Encore choral and orchestral sets website is now in a new version!  Music librarians saw a demo at last weekend's UK and Ireland annual study weekend .  Take a look ....

Here's the announcement from Malcolm Jones, who masterminds the whole Encore choral and orchestral sets website:-

The new version of Encore was released tonight!

It will run in parallel with the existing Encore for 6 months or so.

Users of the new system are urged to approach it for the first time at least via the branch  website:

http://iaml-uk-irl.org/encore-21

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and to read the notes there.