Terms of Reference:
The purpose of the Investment Committee is to monitor IAML’s investments and supervise the IAML Board’s adherence to IAML’s Investment Policy. Guided by IAML’s Investment Policy, the Committee shall report the status of IAML’s investments to the Board, and make recommendations based on investment objectives, past performance, and current market conditions. Members of the Investment Committee consist of the Treasurer, who chairs the committee, Chair of the Development Committee, one current Board member, and two IAML individual members in good standing, who are not current Board members.
Events
- online
- Wednesday, 28 January, 2026
- Winnipeg, online
- 20 May, 2026
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- 28 June, 2026
- Thessaloniki
- Thursday, 2 July, 2026
Investment Committee
Officers:
Kimmy Szeto (USA), Chair
Jim Cassaro (representing the Development Committee)
Jurgen Diet (representing the Board)
Activities
Materials presented in the sessions
- Latvia’s historical sound recordings collection – a window to the music of another eraZane Grosa (National Library of Latvia, Riga)
- Sound recordings of folk music at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences: contents and contexts of the collectionHana Urbancová (Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
- 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)
- Can I listen to that online? Building AV access platformsJonathan Manton (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
- A New Archival Initiative for Electro-acoustic MusicKent Underwood and Tae Hong Park (New York University)
- Disseminate Spanish cultural heritage: Sound and music papersTeresa Delgado Sánchez and Maria Jesus Lopez Lorenzo (Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid)
- Will you remember me? A scientific approach to the preservation of the research material of a music anthropologist in Emilia-Romagna in the 1970s and 1980sFederica Bressan (Università degli studi di Padova)
- On the e-dissemination of traditional Greek musical heritage (Database)Sofia E. Tsopani, Dimitrios A. Adamos, and Aristeidis Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- On the e-dissemination of traditional Greek musical heritage (Presentation)Sofia E. Tsopani, Dimitrios A. Adamos, and Aristeidis Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Music has its destiny: On collecting audio in a digital ageJeremy A. Smith
- A new virtual library for libretti. Digitizing and presenting the libretti of the Her Collection at the Bavarian State LibraryFranz Jürgen Götz (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München)
- Ether today, gone tomorrow: Issues in digital audio archivingJudy Tsou and John Vallier (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
- The preservation of archival sound recordingsAntony Gordon
- Digital preservation issues – speaker notesAntony Gordon
- Digital preservation issuesAntony Gordon
- The preservation task of a sound archivePeter Copeland, read by Antony Gordon