2018 IAML Congress, Leipzig, Germany

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2018 IAML Congress, Leipzig, Germany

The 2018 annual IAML Congress was held 22-27 July in Leipzig, Germany.

The Ad Hoc Committee on IAML Archives
Proposed Terms of Reference

General Assembly
Draft General Assembly agenda (last changed: 25 July 2018)

Hot Topics session
The Hot Topics session took place on Friday, July 27, 14.00-15.00. Suggestions for topics can be seen here (must be logged in to view).

Social media
The hashtag on social media was: #iaml2018
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Congress diaries

General Assembly minutes

Reports for the General Assembly

Materials presented in the sessions

Archives and Music Documentation Centres Section

- Reconsidering modern Greek musical history through the Athens Conservatoire Archives (presentation of the archive)Stella Kourmpana (Athens Conservatoire)
- The International Kurt Masur Institute Leipzig and its archiveAnnett Büttner (Kurt-Masur-Archiv, Leipzig)
- Rethinking Church Music in Francophone space during the 18th Century: the Musical Archives of the church of Saint Vincent de Soignies (Belgium)Fabien Guilloux (Institut de recherche en musicologie, Paris)
- Documenting contemporary music – possibilities and challenges for contemporary music archives in the digital ageKatrin Bicher (Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Reconsidering modern Greek musical history through the Athens Conservatoire Archives (slides)Stella Kourmpana (Athens Conservatoire)

Audio-Visual Materials Section

- Can I listen to that online? Building AV access platformsJonathan Manton (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
- Sound archives at the web portal „Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek“. About the work of the department Media/Sound at the Saxon State and University Library, DresdenSophie Rölle (Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)

Cataloguing and Metadata Section

- La conversion rétrospective du fichier du Conservatoire au département de la musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (slides)François-Pierre Goy (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
- La conversion rétrospective du fichier du Conservatoire au département de la musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (text)François-Pierre Goy (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
- The well-tempered catalogue – the new RDA Toolkit and music resourcesRenate Behrens (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main), Damian Iseminger (Library of Congress, Washington, DC) and Daniel Paradis (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec)

Copyright Committee

- Copyright Committee Working MeetingClaire Kidwell (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London)

Forum of Sections

- Musica Brasilis – making available Brazilian classical music scoresRosana Lanzelotte (Instituto Musica Brasilis, Rio de Janeiro)
- Infrastructures for a democratic musicologyTimothy Duguid (University of Glasgow)
- IncipitSearch – musicological incipit research interlinkedFrederic von Vlahovits (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz) and Anna Neovesky (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz)
- Findings from a survey on local music collecting and collections in Canadian librariesCarolyn Doi (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon) and Sean Luyk (University of Alberta)
- Unraveling the RISM riddle in our stacksKirstin Dougan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL)
- Institutionalization of music practice: the archive of the Academy of Arts, University of Novi SadIra Prodanov (University of Novi Sad, Academy of Arts)
- Opera in the church. Arias from the music collection of the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz (slides)Magdalena Walter-Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
- Opera in the church. Arias from the music collection of the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz (handout)Magdalena Walter-Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
- Edvard Grieg – Norwegian and European. A critical review (paper)Berit Holth (National Library of Norway, Oslo)
- Edvard Grieg – Norwegian and European. A critical review (slides)Berit Holth (National Library of Norway, Oslo)
- A network of early British legal deposit music explored through modern networkingKaren McAulay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow)
- Academic music libraries in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s: the infancy of the music library in JapanMari Itoh (AIchi Shukutoku University, Nagoya) and Hitoshi Matsushita (Meiji University, Higashi-Murayama)
- Warm corners, fog and cheap cotton: sundry journeys from Leipzig to Manchester (slides)Geoff Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)
- Warm corners, fog and cheap cotton: sundry journeys from Leipzig to Manchester (paper)Geoff Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)
- Cataloguing standard and translating unification of Chinese musical compositions – challenges and solutions (slides)Chun-Zen Huang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei) and Tzu-Chia Tseng (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei)
- Cataloguing standard and translating unification of Chinese musical compositions – challenges and solutions (Bilingual Chart of Common Chinese Instrument Names)Chun-Zen Huang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei) and Tzu-Chia Tseng (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei)
- Making noise: sounds of the civil rights movement in the Dartmouth College Music LibraryMemory Apata (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
- Making noise: sounds of the civil rights movement in the Dartmouth College Music Library (text)Memory Apata (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
- Making noise: sounds of the civil rights movement in the Dartmouth College Music Library (slides)Memory Apata (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
- A voice from the past: following the documentRadmila Milinković (University of Arts, Belgrade)
- Música a la llum: the Access to Music Archives IAML project adapted to the wind bands of the region of ValenciaJorge Garcia (Valencia Institute of Culture)

Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section

- Once upon a time there was a website – archiving websites for the musicological communityJürgen Diet (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) and Paul Zimmermann (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- Does the data ring true? An analysis of electronic music journals at McGill UniversityJoseph Hafner, Cynthia Leive, Dawn McKinnon, Andrew Senior (McGill University, Montreal)
- New Horizons: On the Future of Libraries at Universities of Music in GermanyKatharina Hofmann (Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar)
- Digitizing musical cultural heritage in The Special Collections, The University Library of Southern DenmarkAnne Helle Jespersen

Organizing Committee

- Copy books, directories of plate numbers, production records: archival records of music publishers in the Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Staatsarchiv LeipzigThekla Kluttig (Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Staatsarchiv Leipzig)

Poster session

- Love, lust and passion: The Zarzuela Collection of the Ibero-American Institute and the digitization projectUlrike Mühlschlegel (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)
- Curated Naxos Music Library playlists for Philharmonic concerts: a unique collaboration between the Qatar National Library and the Qatar Philharmonic OrchestraSebastian Wilke (Qatar National Library, Doha)
- Digital resources for the composer Franz Schubert – the databases Schubert Online and Schubert Digital (poster)Christine Martin (Neue Schubert-Ausgabe, Tübingen), Katharina Loose-Einfalt (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Mirjam Kluger (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
- Digital resources for the composer Franz Schubert – the databases Schubert Online and Schubert Digital (slides)Christine Martin (Neue Schubert-Ausgabe, Tübingen), Katharina Loose-Einfalt (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Mirjam Kluger (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Public Libraries Section

- The public library as a site of empowerment for the local music sceneMarko Allan Aho (Sastamala City Library)
- How to enrich the service of music libraries with musical appsSusanne Hein (Zentral- und Landesbibliothek, Berlin)

Research Libraries Section

- The work of the exil.arte Center in Vienna (slides)Michael Haas (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna)
- The work of the exil.arte Center in Vienna (paper)Michael Haas (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna)

RILM

- Users’ free-text queries vs. controlled vocabularies: a study of RILM user dataYun Fan (RILM International Center, The City University of New York) and Shuheng Wu (School of Library and Information Science, Queens College, The City University of New York)

RISM

- Experience using bibliographic records downloaded from RISMDavid Blum (Moravian Music Foundation, Winston-Salem, NC)
- The New RISM OPACJürgen Diet (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- Muscat workshop slides (English)Jennifer Ward

Service and Training Section

- Critical information literacy in the music classroomErin Conor (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
- Everyday succession planning in music librariesJanneka Guise (University of Toronto)

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