International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres ( abbreviation IAML, and International Association of Bibliothèques, Archives et Centre de Documentation Musicaux (abbreviation IAML ) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Music Documentation Centres ( abbreviation IAML ) ) is a 1951 trilingual run organization founded in Paris, whose members mainly consist of libraries of music departments, music university libraries, radio and Orchestra archives, university institutes, music documentation centers, as well as music publishers and music dealers. The organization aims to promote the activities of the members and organize cooperation at international level.
History
The IAML was founded in Paris in 1951, in coordination with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA ) and it is registered with UNESCO as an international association. Therefore, there is no music at the IFLA section; the IAML is but there has liaison persons eg for cataloging issues. Two founding year previous conferences in Florence in 1949 and Lüneburg in 1950, in which about 60 music librarians and music scholars from twelve countries took part, prepared the future tasks of the Association. Here, representatives played an important role in the future development of the Association from Belgium, Germany, England, France, Italy and Switzerland. In 1952, the union 224 members in 20 countries.
Members
Members of the Association are mainly institutions, such as public and academic libraries with music departments, music university libraries, radio and Orchestra archives, university departments, research institutes, music documentation centers, as well as music publishers and music dealers. Accordingly, the Association is divided into sections, committees and working groups that keep to the annual conferences in another country their sessions. The proportion of individuals, mostly music librarians and musicologists at varying levels in the member countries. With an increasing number of members were established according to and by groups of countries whose organizational framework is given respectively by the International Constitution and Rules of Procedure of the Association until now.
The association has nearly 1,900 members in 53 countries, of which most come from Europe and North America, but also from Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Currently, there are 22 groups of countries, of which the United States with 247 members at the forefront, followed by Germany with 221, Spain 184 and Italy with 171 members at the international level. Other members come from the countries of the former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Memberships
The association is a member of IFLA, the International Council on Archives (ICA ), the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations ( EBLIDA ) and in the International Music Council (IMC ). The International Association of Sound Archives ( IASA ) and the International Association of Music Information Centres ( IAMIC ) were originally founded by the Association as their specialist groups; but both have became independent in the early 1990s. However, occasionally held joint conferences.
Purpose
The aim of the association is to promote the activities of the members and to strengthen cooperation at the international level and to organize this mainly to the field of music bibliography and the music documentary, but also in the international ILL and in the development of standards in cataloging and development of music materials. Other topics include the vocational education and training and conservation. The union was under the IFLA in the preparation of ISBD PM and NBM (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Printed Music and - Nonbook material ) involved. In collaboration with the ISO, the association actively involved in the creation and development of ISMN (International Standard Music Number ) has worked and it works with other standards such as the ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code ) with.
Projects, Publications
Together with the IMS (International Musicological Society ) promotes and coordinates the association following projects worldwide:
- RISM ( Répertoire International des Sources Musicales ) has sources for music by, among other things, Music Prints up to 1800, music manuscripts from 1600, sources of music theory as well as Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Persian sources, etc.
- RILM ( Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale ) has from 1967 music writings by both monographs and essays, often with abstracts.
- RIdIM ( Répertoire International d' Iconographie Musicale ) documented since 1971 visual music-related materials, primarily in the visual arts.
- RIPM ( Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale ) has music-related articles and illustrations from employment music literature of the 18th -20 since 1988. Century after.
These four projects each have their headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, New York, Paris and Parma.
National centers from the countries work to these international centers, where the data is edited. These are available in printed form or on CD -ROM. Access via the Internet is provided in some cases. The RISM has incidentally been quick to develop world's own coding of the sites and libraries and archives, which is used to this day.
Furthermore, the association serves together with the IMS other publications, such as the reprint and facsimile number Documentation Musicologica.
As an information sheet for the members of the association appeared in 1952 and 1953, the " Bulletin d'information " and since 1954 the magazine " Fontes Artis Musicae ", etc. with contributions from the work of the Association, displays of new publications and reviews in one of the three official languages , often with additional abstracts in at least one of the other two languages. While speaking to the mid-80s at the international conferences German and French more often, has now enforced English as usual language of the conference. Nevertheless, it is of German and French colleagues from the former Eastern Bloc countries and from Italy or Spain, the preference spoken eg at lectures.
Board, committees
The Association is governed by a board consisting of a President, four Vice-Presidents ( with certain tasks ), the Secretary General, the Treasurer and the Past- President. The expert groups and committees are headed by Chairman, Vice-Chairman and a Secretary, who set up for specific projects on -time groups only by a Chairman. All officials are elected for three years. The Publications Committee - that - Constitutions Committee and the Copyright Committee and other committees support the work of the Board in the above areas.
An important decision-making body of the Association is the Council, which, besides the Executive Board and the presidents of the sections and commissions belong to the President of the group of countries and the representatives from countries without country groups. However, there are also interested guests admitted as observers without voting rights.
At the international level had a German representative from the outset in establishing the union with .. 1952 the first meeting at the national level in Mainz. At that time the German country group had 32 members. From 1955 began the GDR institutions to join the Association and participate in the RISM and RILM 1959 own country group GDR was founded with 24 members; they used instead of the French abbreviation IAML IAML from about 1962 the German variant. Currently, the following colleagues from Germany are represented in IAML bodies: Thomas lime ( Treasurer ), Jutta Lambrecht ( Vice Chair of Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Branch), Jürgen Diet ( Secretary of the Commission on Service and Training). Honorary President of IAML: Harald Heckmann.
Congresses
Every year in summer, there is a week-long meeting at different locations; since 1991 in Prague, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Ottawa, Elsinore, Perugia, Genève, San Sebastian, Wellington / NZ, Edinburgh, Périgueux, Berkeley / CA, Tallinn, Oslo, Warsaw, Gothenburg, Sydney. The numbers of participants are here at 270 to 300 participants; Next Meeting places are Naples (2008 ), Amsterdam ( 2009), Moscow ( 2010), Dublin (2011 ), Montreal (2012 ), Vienna (2013 ), Antwerp (2014 ) and New York (2015 ). So far in Germany following international conferences have been held: 1949 Lüneburg, 1957 Kassel, Leipzig 1970, 1977 Mainz, 1985 Berlin ( West ) and 1992 Frankfurt am Main.
Group of countries Germany
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the association has long been run as a non-registered association; she used to date, the French abbreviation AIBM. It was not until the beginning of 1992 the organization was registered as an association and awarded him the profit.
At the end of 1990, the former IAML - country group GDR dissolved for administrative reasons; their members at that time were mainly in the AIBM Group Federal Republic of Germany. There were even some new members who had not previously been a member of IAML - Länderguppe GDR. In agreement with the last incumbent directors IAML - country group GDR, the Executive Board of the IAML Group Federal Republic of Germany has been extended to the position of Vice-President, in the 1991, a board member of the former group of countries IAML GDR was chosen.
Since 1991, national conferences were held in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Erlangen, Dusseldorf, Karlsruhe, Weimar, Coburg, Aachen, Dresden, Leipzig, Essen, Halle / Saale, Rostock, Hanover, Munich. The meeting in Leipzig was carried out as in Weimar, together with the IASA group of countries Germany / German Switzerland. The number of participants is from 100 to 120 participants; participation in the IASA at up to 150 participants. Other Meetings were held in Stuttgart (2006), Freiburg (2007 ), Bremen (2008), Dresden (2009 ), Essen (2010 ), Hamburg ( 2011), Frankfurt am Main (2012 ) and Berlin ( 2013). 2014 is the meeting place in Nuremberg.
The Journal of IAML group of countries, the Federal Republic of Germany eV "Forum Music Library". It is published three times a year since 2012 in the Ortus Musikverlag Krüger & chair.
The work of IAML at the national level was influenced, among others, the following board members: Kurt Dorfmüller, Alfons Ott and Brigitte carbon (Munich ), Hermann Waßner and Wolfgang Krueger (Stuttgart ), Karl- Ludwig Nicol (Freiburg / Breisgau ), Wolfgang Goldhan, Rudolf Elvers, Joachim Jaenecke, Bettina von Seyfried, Ekkehard Baer, Marion Sommerfeld and Petra Wagenknecht (Berlin) as board members and Hans- Martin Pleßke, Ellen Roeser and Rose Hebenstreit (Leipzig), Wolfgang Reich (Dresden ) and Karl -Heinz Köhler and Heinz Werner (Berlin) as more active members, among others in the IAML - country group GDR.
The Board is in the official period 2012-2015 together from Jürgen Diet (Munich ), Susanne Frintrop (Munich), Silvia Uhlemann (Darmstadt) and Kirstin Bloes (Rostock).