Early Career Music Librarian, UK or Republic of Ireland? £250 Prize for best Dissertation or Article!

Calling for submissions

E T Bryant Memorial Prize 

£250 awarded for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship

Details of this valuable award have  just gone live on the IAML(UK and Ireland) website.  If you're an early-career music librarian and have recently written a dissertation or significant paper on a music-librarianship related topic, you're strongly urged to enter your work for the E T Bryant Memorial Prize.  Similarly, if you know of any other recent librarianship students who completed such  work over the past five years, let them know about it!

Details are here:-  http://www.iaml.info/iaml-uk-irl/awards/bryant.html

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• The prize is awarded to a library and information science student or group of students, or to a librarian in their first five years in music librarianship, for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship.
• The prize is awarded for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship.
• The recipient(s) of the prize must be resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland during the year of entry
• Publication of the material during / within the previous five years does not preclude entry
• All entries must be submitted by the published closing date.

The prize will be presented each year to the winner at the Annual General Meeting of the IAML(UK & Irl) Branch, by representatives of IAML(UK & Irl) and The Music Libraries Trust.

A copy of the winning work will be retained in the IAML(UK & Irl) Library.

What next? A Music PhD?

In between finishing off assignments and revising for exams, music finalists may wonder what they'll do after graduation.  

There's a database listing what music postgraduates are currently researching, which might inspire or guide you: the RMA Register of Research Students' Dissertation Topics(UK and Ireland):-

http://www.rma.ac.uk/register/register.asp 

There are various other places you can look, to find out what has been, or is being researched.   Many are freely available, for example you can find completed doctoral theses that are in university libraries by checking www.copac.ac.uk.

Try also:-

• JSTOR (if you're a student or staff at a UK Higher Education establishment, you'll be able to access this by their library subscription - this is the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland database page)
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
• ZETOC 
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate

Posting for PhD Students: Tara's Ten Tips for Rapid PhD Completion

You can read Tara's paper on her Academia.com page. 

If you haven't yet visited Academia.com, then this also gives you the opportunity to explore a valuable networking site for scholars and researchers.

A Pleasure To Read - Help your Thesis Examiner

Pat Thomson writes 'Patter', a blog about research methodology. Today her posting is about writing your thesis in a way that makes it easy for your examiner to follow your thread:- 

 keeping your thesis reader/examiner on track by pat thomson

Flying High: Catherine's Big News

CONGRATULATIONS, CATHERINE!

Our Assistant Librarian, Catherine Small, has won the IAML(UK & Irl) E. T. Bryant Prize for her recent postgraduate Librarianship dissertation on dating musical scores.  This is a fantastic achievement, and we're all enormously proud of her.  The University of Strathclyde will also be delighted that one of their recent graduates has done so well.