DENMARKAuthor(s): Ole BisbjergSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April-June 2007), pp. 212-214Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23510617 .

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212 FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE 54/2

year. Our goal is that in the future they be come members of IAML (Crostioa) and we will be able to include them in our future

projects.

We are trying to support the sheet mu

sic market by fostering better connections

between music publishers and dealers and

encouraging them to open shops special

ized for sheet music. But it's not easy. In

last 60 years we have two big political

changes—from a capitalist society to com

munist and then back agin. During the

change from capitalism to communism, all

the private publishers/dealers were

banned from private business, and in this

last change we suffered from the reverse:

bad privatization in which our greatest mu sic publisher and dealer from the period 1945-1991 was been destroyed. So, it is not

easy for new publisher/dealer to start from

the beginning, and musical scores (in con

trast with musical instruments) does not

seem to them as good business to start

with.

Igor Mladinic IAML (Croatia)

CZECH REPUBLIC

The Czech National Branch has now

twenty-three full members, out of this

eleven are international. We have contacts

with other Czech and Moravian music li

braries, which participate fairly regularly in

our common events.

The General Meeting of the Czech

National Branch took place in October 2005 in the newly-reconstructed Czech Museum

of Music building. In addition to the regular agenda, which included the election of the new committee, the participants could ex

plore the Czech Museum of Music and to

see the newly-reopened collection of musi

cal instruments, which had been closed for

many years. To accelerate and improve the exchange

of information and knowledge about each

other we initiated the creation of our own

website. It is being designed by Mr. Tomas

Kucera from the Music Department of the

Jin Mahen Library in Brno, who will also be the webmaster. There are negotiations

underway about placing this website on the

National Library server.

The Music Department of the Jiff Mahen Library, which is very active within our group, organized at the end of May the

sixth seminar from the cycle of lectures

from musical history. These lectures are fo

cused on the education of librarians in mu

sic libraries, this year's seminar was about

Mozart, his relationship with Moravia, and about Salieri. These very popular lectures

are held by a teacher from the Masaryk

University, the composer and musicologist

Milos Stédron. There is continuing very good coopera

tion between our Czech branch and the

Slovak National Branch. Apart from other

activities, we have been attending each

other's meeting for the past three year

where we can discuss our problems and ex

change our experiences on solutions to

those problems.

An amendment of The Czech Copyright

Law has come into power about a month

ago. It bans „making copies from published sheet music including music dramas". This

year's general meeting and seminar of the

Czech National Branch will be dealing with

this important issue. It will take place in au

tumn in the Hradec Krâlové Municipal

Library.

Jana Navratilova

IAML (Czech Republic)

DENMARK

Our General Assembly was held on

17 March 2006 at Lyngby Public Library. As of 31 December 2005, the Dansk Musik biblioteks Forening (DMBF) had 158 mem bers. That is almost the same amount of

members as last year. They are distributed

as follows: LA 43, IB: 56, PA: 36, PB: 23, in cluding three students and seven foreign

institutions. We are still experiencing a pos itive interest in joining the DMBF.

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REPORTS 213

Important Assignments during the connection with this. A lot of students are Past Year involved in Net music and many considera

In 2005 the work of the board had been cen tions could be interesting for the libraries

promotion of music on the internet. In 2007 tered on many interesting assignments. DMBF will work to improve the possibility Karenstiden' has been one of our greatest Qf their result to contribute t0 the libraries. concerns. We continue to see the waiting aR sjx board meetings have been heW time as a major setback for the Danish

since ^ ^ general assembly Library model. But the first expenences

show that our users do not see the matter in

the same way. In January 2006, the BS Courses/Supplementary Training made a questionnaire investigation to cover

the libraries experiences. The results have October 2005 we held Music Profes

not yet been published. The effort to sional Days at Nyborg Strand. To plan and

change the waiting has not ended yet. That hold these daYs were took a lot of work but

is way the DMBF will follow this matter the support was equally great. There were

closely in 2007 and try to influence the de- man7 highlights: a summary of the confer

cision makers in the right direction. The ence can be read on Musikbib online. We

Jubilee publication for the first 40 years of are considering holding a single project-day the Music libraries had been a fairly big in die the issue addressed will be the

issue in the work of the board. DMBF promotion of music in the new counties. We

continues to have a representative in request to ideas and issues to be addressed

Denmark's Council of Music and thereby at following conventions,

we gain a good network in the Danish mu

sic community. The state and counties tran- „ . ,, . m . ,, , , Musikbib and the DMBF at This

sition to electronic invoicing had also been Time

an obstacle for the DMBF. We continue to

prioritize marketing and visibility, and try Musikbib is an interesting journal with a to make our point of views clear, both in tra- great layout. Musikbib online has by far gen

ditional and untraditional coherences. erates the most hits on DMBF at this time. The journal is published three times in 2006. We are working with changing edi tors to divide the work among the board.

We are working to improve our visibility in We have also been discussing to change to

the 96 new counties. The goal in 2007 is to electronic publishing but we have not yet

distribute Musikbib2 to at least 95% of the reach any conclusions regarding this issue,

counties. In cooperation with BS and SB we Therefore the journal will be published on

will try to carry through a professional in- paper in 2006. The Music list is still the mu

vestigation of the coherence between loan, sic librarians' favorite platform for profes

sâtes, and downloading of music. An inves- sional ideas online,

tigation like that has, to our knowledge, never been carried through before it will be

tremendously relevant for the Music busi- Economy

ness and the libraries. As the account states the association's We are focusing on library students and

economy is continually improving. We are are planning several initiatives in 2007 in now experiencing surplus in the balance.

This is also due to our successful project

1. The term for the 4-month period that li- days last fall. Furthermore we have looked

braries have to wait to loan a CD. over out budget and tried to cut down ex

2. The Danish journal for music libraries. penses wherever we could.

Initiatives for 2006

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214 FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE 54/2

International Cooperation/IAML

In 2005 the DMBF has had a vice-chair (Kirsten Husted) in the Public Libraries Branch. Together with the Norwegian

branch DMBF are working on proposals re

garding the annual conferences and other

matters concerning the international coop

eration in IAML. The proposals will hope fully be presented by late fall 2006.

Ole Bisbjerg IAML (Denmark)

FINLAND

TTie Board and Members

The board has 11 members from various

music libraries and institutions. The presi dent of the branch is Ulla Ikäheimo (National Library of Finland), the vice

president is Irmeli Koskimies (Sibelius Academy) and secretary-treasurer is

Heikki Poroila (Vantaa City Library). Membership of the branch stands at 16 in dividual and 51 institutional members.

Publications

The publication activities are undergoing

change in that there were no printed publi cations this year. Two directories were

opened on line: Hankalat musiikkinimet (List of authorized music name headings) and Aidatrumpetista zimbalomiin (List of musical instruments) can be searched at

http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/musiikki/. The national library portal Kiijastot.fi and its music channel are the most important

way of informing music libraries. The printed magazine Intervalli is still issued

quarterly, but there are plans for electronic

publication in .pdf form. The Finnish magazine of classical music

Rondo published a special music library is sue that was distributed in libraries.

Kirjastolehti (The Finnish Library Journal) and Trad (folk music magazine) also had articles on music libraries.

Other Activities

The official branch meetings were held in Lahti City Library and Vantaa City Library.

Fourteen of the largest public music li braries met in February for discussions of

music library services in the future. The

"manifest" for further discussion contains,

among other things, regional music library

services, the staff competence, the musical

gamut and depth, and promoting national

culture.

The branch started planning a copyright

seminar in Helsinki and a study trip to Denmark in the autumn 2006. The most

important future happening is the Baltic

Nordic music library meeting which will be held in Helsinki August 2007. The home

page of the event is http://www.lib.helsinki .fi/english/libraries/viola/MPL2007/

Jaakko Tuohiniemi IAML (Finland)

FRANCE

The number of members in the French

branch has been decreasing. Since 2004 there has been a loss of twelve member

ships (eight institutional and four individual

memberships). In 2005, the French Group did not receive any subsidies from the

Direction of the Music, Dance, Theatre and

Spectacle (DMDTS). A new application which is supposed to be successful has

been made this year.

Three important measures were taken

this year on the website of the French

group. The website can be found under the

address: www.aibm-France.org • The first measure on the website enlists

an index of the libraries and French in

stitutions that contain music collections.

A publication was made available online in 2001. The index will be updated and made accessible for everyone from

September onwards. With the help of

this database, it will be possible to search according to regions, cities, li

braries, etc. The use of the database is

very simple and efficient.

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