Category Archives: News

Wanted: Encore 21 Migration Manager

Posted on January 11, 2021 by mj263

IAML (UK & Irl) is looking for an Encore21 Migration Manager. Could it be you? Read on for further information. Position: Self-employed migration manager Organisation: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (UK & Ireland Branch) Closing date: … Continue reading →

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Music, Home and Heritage – Uncovering historic house music collections

Posted on August 25, 2020 by iamlcomms

Towards the beginning of 2020, I was invited to assist a joint Royal College of Music-University of Southampton research team in their ongoing AHRC-funded project, “Music, Home and Heritage”. The project’s overarching aim is to explore “how listening to and … Continue reading →

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The Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum

Posted on May 7, 2020 by mj263

The Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum comprises over 12,000 items from the eighteenth century to the present, and is a major research resource for the study of Handel and his contemporaries. Handel was a major benefactor of … Continue reading →

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ASWs Past and Future: a personal reflection

Posted on April 17, 2020 by mj263

My diary tells me that Friday 17th April should have been the first day of the 2020 Annual Study Weekend in Leeds. Planning for the conference had taken more than a year and at the last Conference Committee meeting held … Continue reading →

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Preserving our heritage, celebrating our history

Posted on April 15, 2020 by mj263

Margaret Jones, blog editor for IAML (UK&Irl), asked me some time ago to write a little about the role of IAML Historian, a post to which I was appointed early in 2020. Of course I’m happy to do so. I … Continue reading →

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“Music for the Terrified” in Galway!

Posted on April 8, 2020 by mj263

One of the best things about the “Irl” in our Branch’s name is the opportunity that it gives us to meet our Irish colleagues. So it was with great pleasure that Geoff Thomason and I recently travelled across the Irish … Continue reading →

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IAML Annual Study Weekend, April 17-19, 2020, postponed to 2021

Posted on April 8, 2020 by mj263

As a result of COVID-19 precautions the IAML (UK & Irl) Conference Committee regrets to announce that the 2020 Annual Study Weekend has had to be postponed. It will now take place from 9th – 11th April 2021, at the … Continue reading →

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The winner of the 2019 C.B. Oldman Award is announced!

Posted on April 8, 2020 by mj263

The C.B. Oldman Prize Committee has pleasure in announcing the winner of the 2019 award:  Lawson, C. and Stowell, R. (eds.). The Cambridge encyclopaedia of historical performance in music. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018). ISBN 9781107108080. Congratulations to the editors – Colin Lawson … Continue reading →

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IAML Annual Study Weekend, April 17-19, 2020

Posted on March 17, 2020 by mj263

As a result of COVID-19 precautions the IAML (UK & Irl) Conference Committee regrets to announce that the 2020 Annual Study Weekend has had to be postponed. It will now take place from 9th – 11th April 2021, at the … Continue reading →

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The final shortlist for the 2019 C.B. Oldman Award is announced!

Posted on March 5, 2020 by mj263

The C.B. Oldman Prize Committee has pleasure in announcing the final shortlist for the 2019 award: Bird, M. (ed.). The wanderer : diaries, 1905-1907 / Edward Elgar. (Rickmansworth, Herts : Elgar Works, 2018). ISBN 9781904856597. Lawson, C. and Stowell, R. (eds). The Cambridge … Continue reading →

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