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.

Thoughts about a Pile of Old Music - The Long Tail of Research

Read Karen's musings about a pile of old pop music that she found the other day!  The Long Tail of Research

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/

Music Librarianship: the E T Bryant Award

This is an award for early career music librarians. You can find full details on the IAML(UK and Ireland) website.

"The E.T. Bryant prize of £300 is awarded at the Branch's Annual General Meeting for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship, by a student or group of students of Library and Information Science, or to a librarian in their first five years of music librarianship."

The closing date is 12 December 2016.

Music Librarians Go Abroad

We're members of IAML - the International Association of Music Libraries.  Karen posted a 'conference diary' entry on the IAML website, after attending and speaking at the 2014 conference in Antwerp earlier this month.  You can read it HERE.

Music Librarianship and Research: One of 23 Librarians

A few weeks ago, a recently-retired librarian called Anabel Marsh started a blog about the very varied careers of 23 different librarians.  Karen was invited to guest-contribute a blog-post, which appeared on 14th March.  Happy to have been able to contribute, she thought no more of this until a comment appeared in her in-box: the blog was recommended to a class of librarianship students in South Korea, and a would-be music librarian wanted to make contact with her.  Truly the internet has made it a very small world these days!

Looking after Musicians - IAML (International Association of Music Libraries)

IAML is an international organisation uniting music libraries and music librarians globally, and there are also many national branches.

The IAML international website combines serious professional discussion and general music library news.

To brighten your day, we share the 'entertainment' section at the end of today's IAML News, Friday Edition:-

Friday Fun

• Amateur musicians join a pro orchestra for a day
  Side by Side with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSP6ZMxpE6w&feature=share&list=UU9kWhteV7V69hjHvfhWIung&index=1
• Kids React to Sony Walkman
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_vV-JRZ6E
• Which archivist are you?
  http://www.playbuzz.com/rebeckas10/which-archivist-are-you

The Music Librarian's Favourites

FAVOURITES?  Did you hear us say that the supposedly impartial music librarian has favourites? 

Relax!  These are favourite websites, not favourite borrowers, because of course we love you all equally.

Karen saves her favourite websites to Diigo, so she can share them with you later.  However, when there's a lot of cataloguing and not as much time, it seems more sensible to share them all at once.  So as a special treat, you're being granted a peek into the music librarian's recently favourited finds.

Click here for a whole batch of useful links on:-

• The E T Bryant Memorial Prize for early career music librarians
• An extinct stringed instrument - a mini cello played under your chin!
• The British Library Mechanical Curator - quality free historical images
• MAPCO historical maps
• Glasgow University Library's Incunabula project (very rare books)
• The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Teaching Artist course
• Life beyond the PhD
• and much, much more!

Part Time Music Library Job in London

Whittaker has heard about this opportunity, which might interest someone looking to make a career in music librarianship:-

"Part-time job opportunity in London

 

Community and Youth Music Library

 

Would you like to manage a library of printed music located in Crouch End, London N8?   We need a part-time (10 hours a week) administrator to manage, with assistance from volunteers, the Community & Youth Music Library, a national resource of orchestral and vocal printed classical music which is loaned to orchestras, wind bands and choirs throughout the UK.   The full catalogue is located at the library website (www.cymlibrary.org.uk)

 

Applicants should have experience of managing or working in a music library. 

 

Terms: 10 hours per week (ideally on Tuesdays and Fridays) for at least 46 weeks a year, self employed, £15 per hour.

 

For an application pack please email cymlibrary@gmail.com. giving your name and full address.

 

Final date for returned applications is September 6 2013

Interviews will be on Friday September 27 2013  

For more information about the Library go to www.cymlibrary.org.uk"

Music Library Assistant Job at University of Cambridge

This post might interest someone in the Cambridge area:-

"The Pendlebury Library of Music is looking for a new Library Assistant:

Faculty of Music

Pendlebury Library of Music

Library Assistant, Vacancy Reference Number GT29222

Salary: £18,005 - £20,764 per annum, (Grade 3, step 24 - 29)"

http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/

The Helpfulness of a Music Librarian

Of course, you already know how helpful music librarians can be! Our professional association is celebrating 60 years of helpfulness, as you see on this mailing from Cambridge ...

"This week a new exhibition was launched at Cambridge University Library celebrating 60 years of IAML (UK & IRL); more information at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/music/exhibitions.html

"The exhibition is now launched with a blog post titled "The most helpful people on earth: 60 years of IAML(UK and Ireland)" by Susi Woodhouse: 

"So wrote Imogen Holst of music librarians in her article Gustav Holst's manuscripts in Brio vol. 4 no. 1. As true now as it was back in 1967. This year, the United Kingdom and Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (to give it its full name) celebrates its […]" Read more of this post here.

Award for Early Career Music Librarians - the E T Bryant Memorial Prize

E.T. Bryant Memorial Prize

From the IAML(UK & Irl) website:-

'The E.T. Bryant Memorial Prize is awarded to a student of Library and Information Science, or to a librarian in their first five years in music librarianship, for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship. Publication does not preclude entry. The prize is £250, awarded jointly by IAML(UK & Irl) and the Music Libraries Trust ...'

Storify - different uses of a simple social media tool

Have you come across Storify.com?

I'm finding all sorts of uses for it.  I used it a few months ago for reviewing a book about a Cape Breton fiddlemaker:- Musings on Creativity

Then, thinking about all the different things I do as a librarian, I wondered if I could use it as an informal kind of CV, too.  Not the kind of CV you'd necessarily send to an employer, but maybe a useful link to show a different aspect of yourself.  (If you've ever wondered what librarians really do, both at work and at home, this might be enlightening ...!)

I'm quite sure Storify could be put to excellent use with video-clips or audio podcasts, too - ideal for a performer.  See what you think!

Little and Large

Tuesdays & Wednesdays in the Whittaker Library, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

'Whittaker' (aka Music and Academic Services Librarian Karen McAulay) has news for you!  While Karen is doing her postdoc research secondment thing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, we're getting a new assistant librarian to provide cover.  

Her name is Catherine Small, and she's a music graduate who has just finished her librarianship Masters at the University of Strathclyde.  Catherine did a work placement with us earlier this year, and has been a cataloguing volunteer to gain experience of a vital skill.  Despite her name, she is taller (and slimmer) than Karen, so you won't get us mixed up!

All together, now - a big, warm, Whittaker welcome to Catherine, and we hope she'll soon feel very much at home with us.

Career choices

Anyone contemplating a career in music librarianship might be interested to follow this link to a traineeship in Cambridge:-

"Vacancy for a graduate trainee at Christ’s College Cambridge (fixed term, one-year contract):

http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-life/vacancies/assistant-staff-vacancies/grad-trainee/

Whilst the collection covers all subjects taught at undergraduate level, it includes a significant collection of sheet music and scores together with a small music hire library.

Closing date: 12 noon, Friday 2 March 2012."