DENMARKAuthor(s): Ole BisbjergSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 52, No. 2 (April-June 2005), pp. 104-105Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23510367 .

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104 FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE 52/2

• Katalogisierung von Musikalien: Arbeits bereiche und Ziele der AG Musikalien

bearbeitung (Carl Ulrich Friedend / Constanza Furtlehner)

• EU-Projekte: Ein Überblick zu Chancen, Inhalten und Vorgangsweise; Informa

tionen zum Projekt Culture 2000 (Sigrid Olbrich-Hiebler, BKA)

• Mozart 2006: Ausstellungs- und Projekt pläne (Herbert Lachmayer)

• Web site und Mailingliste von LAML Austria (Bernhard Guenther)

• Survey IAML/MUSICNETWORK (Bern hard Guenther)

• Das mica und der European Music

Navigator (Bernhard Guenther)

The first IAML Austria session of 2004

(April 20) took place in the Austrian National Library and dealt with only one item: the problems of copyright in the daily life of music libraries. Two experts in this

field, Astrid Koblanck (Universal Edition) and Isolde Midler (Universitätsbibliothek Graz) spoke on the various aspects of this

topic.

The website of IAML Austria will be ac cessible in Autumn 2004 (www.iaml.at) and will offer information on the following items: A short description of IAML Austria and of its goals, the constitution, the offi

cers, the next meetings, minutes of former

meetings, the addresses of the members

together with specific library information.

Thomas Leibnitz,

President, IAML (Austria) Vienna, 30 March 2004

BELGIUM

The importance of cultural and musical her

itage is recognised by several governments

who granted some of the needed financial

support. This resulted in several digitising projects for scores as well as sound record

ings. These projects are not yet completed,

but they show that Belgium has the inten tion to make up arrears.

Music libraries tried, and are trying, to make people more conscious about musical

heritage, and several exhibitions—mostly

combined with concert performances— were organised.

Two exhibitions of international impor tance are coming; one concerning Luto

slawski in the Royal Library, the other con

cerning German collector Guido Wagener.

The Royal Conservatory in Brussels ac

quired his collection of about 8,000 volumes in 1904. The importance of the collection can be shown by the recent facsimile edi

tion of ms. 97.280. This French manuscript dates from the 1670s and contains some un

known repertoire for the French harpsi

chord. After a long period of preparation

and discussion, the first Belgian music cat

alogue will be available on the Internet

from the end of this year.

The Royal Library has appointed new members for RILM Belgium. Klaus Keil was invited by Resonant in Louvain to assist

in the reorganisation of RISM Belgium.

Johan Eeckeloo

DENMARK

Annual Report 2003-2004 Danish AIML Branch

A period of transition. This was my first year as chairman of

the Danish IAML branch. It has been an

exiting task with many challenges. In

2003/2004 the Danish IAML has had an in crease in membership of around 10%, to a

total of 170 members by June 2004.1 regard

this as sign of recognition from Danish mu

sic libraries and librarians that they support the work that has been carried out by the

branch.

During the past year the Board has be

gun a discussion about priorities and goals. It is of the utmost importance that this dis cussion continues in the year to come. For

example, in Denmark all the public libraries now have a legislative obligation to commu

nicate music materials to the borrowers. At

the same time many libraries have closed their specialist music departments and fo

cused on the integration of music in the

rest of the library. The consequences of this

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REPORTS

development have to be addressed and

discussed by the Danish IAML—we simply might have to change the focus of our

initiatives. Another hot topic is the continued mar

keting of music libraries and what they stand for. It's a fact that we still have to deal

with prejudices and misunderstandings that we thought were long gone about mu

sic libraries and their role. We therefore have to do much better when it comes to in

formation and communicating the basic

idea of what music libraries should be for in modern society.

The Board has been in close contact and

discussion with the Ministry of Culture and Cultural Affairs regarding upcoming legis lation that concerns a waiting period for

compact discs in music libraries. We think that this waiting period, if implemented, will have a very negative impact on a wide span

of areas of library work, and we have tried

to communicate this to the Minister. As an

optimistic person, I still have the hope that it will be possible to prevent the waiting pe riod from becoming a reality. The Danish IAML is still discussing new ideas for action and would like to hear from colleagues who

have knowledge and experience with wait

ing periods and their impact on libraries. Danish music libraries are rapidly mov

ing into the world of communicating digital music on the Internet. September 1st

marks the starting point of a new service

with the name Bibliotekernes netmusik

(Danish libraries music on the Internet).

At this moment more than 80 research

and public libraries have joined the project (more to come before September) and

these libraries will give their borrowers the

opportunity to lend (download for a period of time) a total of more than 30,000 individ ual tracks—a number that will be rising to around 60,000—at home on the borrower's

own personal computers. The service will

be free of charge for the borrower and the

only demand is a valid library card to the lo cal public library in the borough where he or she lives. It will be very exciting to see what consequences the service will have on

other areas of music library work such as

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acquisition, communication, etc. I will be

happy to answer questions regarding this

new service during and after the conference.

Another exciting project is taking place in one of the largest music libraries in Denmark, Odense Music Library, in 2004/ 2005. The main topic of the project is to de

velop totally new ways of organizing and

communicating materials and services in a

modern music library. The library is collab

orating with a number of partners from out

side the library world thus hoping to get re

freshing new ideas. And I think they have. You can follow the project on the library's web site -and if you come to Denmark,

Odense Music Library will be worth a visit. The Nordic collaboration between AIML

branches now seems to be revitalized. We

aim to have a meeting during this confer ence and hope to present a schema for fu

ture closer collaboration across the borders.

I'll end my report with a few comments

on the international collaboration within IAML. The board of the Danish IAML will

join the discussion to develop IAML into a vivid and modern organization. It is, in our

opinion, a very essential period of transition

for the organisation, and this Autumn we

aim to make a list of proposals to the inter national board and we expect, and look

forward to, an upcoming dialogue with

the international board regarding these proposals.

Ole Bisbjerg President, IAML (Denmark)

FINLAND

National Report

This year we have had some changes in po

sitions: the new President of the Finnish branch is Ulla Ikaheimo from Helsinki

University Library. Heikki Poroila is now the chief editor of our Intervalli magazine.

Our meetings have been in new libraries

around Helsinki, so that members have

been able to see interesting architecture

and co-operation between different types of

libraries. There are several new catalogues

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