Forum of Sections

Events

The Programme Officer invites a designated representative of the Local Organizing Committee to take part in the process of creating the congress programme.

The Programme Officer sends out a call for papers and posters for the forthcoming congress in early September. The calls will be announced on the IAML website, social media platforms, listservs (such as IAML-L) and e-mails to the National Branches.

Deadlines will be clearly indicated to facilitate the whole process of creating the programme, updating abstracts and collecting technical requirements.

All proposals (also those prepared in advance by the Local Organizing Committee) must be submitted via the online submission forms.

There are three online submission forms:
a) one for a general call for papersgeneral call for posters
c) one for IAML chairs (password protected)

The single session that the chairs are responsible for creating will be automatically accepted.

All other proposals will be assessed by the Members of the Forum of Sections.

Once the Forum has completed the selection process the first draft of the programme will be shared with all IAML chairs.

Applicants will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance by the Forum of Sections Chair.

IAML chairs have the responsibility to maintain contact with speakers in their sessions; also to ensure that abstracts with translations are submitted and technical requirements are confirmed by the deadlines set.

Sessions with no affiliation to branches, sections or committees shall be promoted by the Forum of Sections which will appoint chairs for these sessions. Appointed chairs are requested to contact speakers in these sessions; also to ensure that abstracts with translations are submitted and technical requirements are confirmed by the deadlines set.

Detailed information about the preparation for sessions will be provided in “Guidelines for speakers” and “Guidelines for session chairs”.

Travel support

The Forum of Sections administers an annual travel fund of €1000. The policy governing this fund was approved by the IAML Council at its meetings in Warsaw, Poland in 2005.

Both the written policy and an application form are available online.

Background

The Forum of Sections (until 2016 the Forum of Commissions and Professional Branches) was established in 2014 based on Article VII – Institutional and Subject Sections, Study Groups, Project Groups, Committees, Subcommittees and Joint Commissions of the IAML Constitution:

10. A Forum of Sections, consisting of the Chairs of these groups, shall oversee the planning of the annual congress programme and advise the Board on other matters relating to their particular areas of interest

and Rule VII – Forums of National Representatives and Sections of the IAML Rules of Procedure:

4. The Forum of Sections shall meet during the annual congress. The meeting shall be chaired by the Vice-President designated by the Board as the Association’s Programme Officer, with one of the other attendees serving as Secretary. Agenda items for the meeting may be proposed by any member of the Forum. The Secretary General shall be an ex-officio member of this Forum; other Board members are welcome to attend.

Officers

The Forum of Sections plays a key role in creating the professional programme of IAML Congresses.

Vice-President (IAML Programme Officer)
Secretary General
Chairs of the Sections
Archives and Music Documentation Centres Section
Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Section
Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section
Public Libraries Section
Research Libraries Section
Chairs of the Subject Sections:
Bibliography Sections
Section on Audio-Visual Materials
Section on Service and Training
Cataloguing Section

See below the list of the current year’s Members of the Forum of Sections.

Activities

Forum of Commissions and Professional Branches, Working meeting, New York, 25 June 2015

Materials presented in the sessions

Year: 2024

Current directions in music information literacy: A new companion to the “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education”
Andrea Beckendorf (Luther College, Decorah)

Demonstrating scholarly impact: Acknowledgement of music libraries in students’ theses and dissertations in South Africa
Siviwe Bangani (Stellenbosch University)

Digital collection of the Latvian song and dance celebrations then (2018) and now (2023)
Ruta Almane-Palmbaha (National Library of Latvia)

McGill University Collections Centre: Navigating the journey to a sustainable robotic off-site library storage facility
Joseph Hafner (McGill University, Montreal)

More than just the notes: Putting music collections in context
Katharine Hogg (The Foundling Museum)

Prioritizing preservation through access: Placing digital stewardship at the heart of digital collections access at Yale University Library
Jonathan Manton (Yale University)

Year: 2023

Architectures of emptiness: musical sources, the digital dérive, and the senses
Sascia Pellegrini (School of the Arts of Singapore)

Architectures of emptiness: musical sources, the digital dérive, and the senses (video)
Sascia Pellegrini (School of the Arts of Singapore)

The Austen family music books and Jane Austen’s musical relationships
Gillian Dooley (Flinders University, Adelaide)

The beginning of music printing in Germany in the 15th century (slides)
Mary Kay Duggan (University of California, Berkeley)

The beginning of music printing in Germany in the 15th century (text)
Mary Kay Duggan (University of California, Berkeley)

A (belated) bicentennial remembrance of Jenny Lind (1820-1887)
Raymond Heigemeir (Stanford University)

Born-digital personal archives: a case study from the British Library
Christopher Scobie (British Library, London)

Controlled Digital Lending (CDL): issues and opportunities for sheet music collections
Sean Luyk (University of Alberta, Edmonton), Amanda Wakaruk (University of Alberta, Edmonton)

Digitisation: past, present and future. Reflections on 20 years of music digitisation at the British Library and questions for the coming years
Sandra Tuppen (British Library, London)

Discoveries from Thomas Binkley Collection at the Cook Music Library at Indiana University, United States, towards the reconstruction of the history of Studio der frühen Musik (Introduction)
Kimmy Szeto (Baruch College, City University of New York) and Charles W. Peters (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Dutch music artists’ outlook on strategy, creativity, and music streaming platform influence during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Karlijn Dinnissen (Utrecht University)

Gems of German Protestant church music from the 18th century freely accessible: the “Telemann digital” project in the University Library Frankfurt am Main
Ann Kersting-Meuleman (Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main)

How special is special? A 21st century approach to music special collections assessment (notes)
Kirstin Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

How special is special? A 21st century approach to music special collections assessment (slides)
Kirstin Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Musical maps of the world in the 21st century: leveraging Open Access platforms to create music research tools for the new age
M. Nathalie Hristov (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Kathryn Shepas (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Joshua Ortiz Baco (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

A nation in concert: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio Program Archives as a narrative of local music history
Houman Behzadi (McGill University, Montreal)

Personal holdings of women musicians preserved in the institutions of musical documentation in Spain
Pello Leiñena Mendizabal (Eresbil – Basque Music Archive, Errenteria) and María José González Ribot (Documentation Centre for the Performing Arts and Music – CDAEM)

Restoring history: archival material on Maria Callas at the Athens Conservatoire Archives
Stella Kourmpana (Athens Conservatoire)

A review of performing arts content in US institutional repositories
Kate Lambaria (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Why Ed Sheeran’s court victory sounds good for the music industry
Hayleigh Bosher (Brunel University London)

Войны Для Воинов: the Far-reaching poetics of 1980’s Soviet punk music and political dissent in the Lavrov Collection at Indiana University Cook Music Library
Laikin Dantchenko (Indiana University, Bloomington)

‘A song sleeps in all things around’ – the role of music cultures in the history of Eastern Europe, presented in the Copernico web portal Eastern Europe
Beate Schiebl (Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Central Europe, Marburg)

Year: 2022

Antonín Dvořák‘s songs: editorial challenges
Veronika Vejvodová (National Museum, Czech Museum of Music, Antonín Dvořák Museum, Prague)

The Basilean music collection of Lucas Sarasin (1730-1802): an early example of ‘bourgeois’ manuscript collecting revisited in a new digital format
Roland Pfeiffer (University Library Basel)

A bird in Iowa, a bird in Bohemia: Dvořák and birdsong
Anita Breckbill (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Bohuslav Martinů’s and Viktor Kalabis’ online archives
Aleš Březina (The Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Endowment Fund, Prague) and Martin Ledvinka (Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Prague)

Creating new cultural content from old archival materials (paper)
Sharon Kanach (Centre Iannis Xenakis / GRHis / Université de Rouen Normandie, Rouen) and Cyrille Delhaye (Centre Iannis Xenakis, Rouen)

Creating new cultural content from old archival materials (slides)
Sharon Kanach (Centre Iannis Xenakis / GRHis / Université de Rouen Normandie, Rouen) and Cyrille Delhaye (Centre Iannis Xenakis, Rouen)

Die Sammlung des Städtischen Deutschen Theaters Riga – die Forschungsergebnisse und Herausforderungen
Eridana Žiba (National Library of Latvia, Rīga)

Digitizing rare music manuscripts at Stanford: a progress report (notes)
Raymond Heigemeir (Stanford University)

Digitizing rare music manuscripts at Stanford: a progress report (slides)
Raymond Heigemeir (Stanford University)

Erik Chisholm and the Active Society for the Propagation of Contemporary Music: an archival research scoping study
Brian Inglis (Middlesex University, London)

Friends with benefits: visualising musicians’ networks
Lizzy Buckle (Royal Holloway, University of London and Foundling Museum, London)

From private to public: the personal library of composer Arvo Pärt at the Arvo Pärt Centre
Toomas Schvak (Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa)

Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt in exchanges with South America from 1950 to 1990: Introduction to IMD Archiv and other sources Joevan de Mattos Caitano (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden)

I’m beginning to see the leitmotif: Max Steiner’s earliest surviving film score manuscript
Jeff Lyon (Brigham Young University, Provo) and Brent Yorgason (Brigham Young University, Provo, NR)

The NFDI4Culture consortium as a hub between research and libraries
Desiree Mayer (Sächsische Landesbibliothek-Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)

Project Group on RISM Series C: deliverables. An instruction manual for institutional authority records in MUSCAT
Aris Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki), Maria Aslanidi (Ionian University, Corfu), and Arsinoi Ioannidou (Greek RISM Office)

Solving puzzles: the project MARCMUS – Music paper and handwriting studies and the collaboration between music libraries and academia
Isabel Gonçalves (National Library of Portugal, Lisbon), Sílvia Sequeira (National Library of Portugal, Lisbon) and António Jorge Marques (CESEM / Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Speeding-up the encoding of mensural collections from Spanish libraries
David Rizo (Universidad de Alicante), Teresa Delgado (Asociación Española de Documentación Musical), Jorge Calvo and Antonio Madueño (Universidad de Alicante), Patricia García-Iasci (Universidad de Salamanca)

To make a real theatre: Preparation of a monograph on the Bohuslav Martinů Musical Theater until 1937, including a critical edition of the librettos
Natálie Krátká (Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Prague) and Aleš Březina (Bohuslav Martinu Institute, Prague)

Vítězslav Novák in the collection of the Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Ludmila Šmídová (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague)

WoO 195: The story and life behind a Beethoven piece: a virtual exhibit on the story of Théodore Frédéric Molt, only Canadian who met Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna 1825
Marc Stoeckle (University of Calgary, NR) and Sylvia Polachuck (University of Calgary)

Year: 2021

RPiM: your tool for finding new books!
Joseph Hafner (McGill University, Montréal)

Year: 2020

Online Archives of IAML: An update on documenting IAML information for the future
Joseph Hafner (McGill University)

Year: 2019

Assessing music ontologies for the development of a complex database
Maria João Albuquerque (FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa), H. Sofia Pinto (Universidade de Lisboa) and José Borbinha (Universidade de Lisboa)

Ella, Franz and All the Others: The Manuscript Holdings of the Music Collection at the Herder-Institute Marburg (Germany) Beate Schiebl (Herder-Institute for historical research on East Central Europe Marburg)

FMJ Archive: a Digital Database for German-Language Film Music Journalism
Dr. Francesco Finocchiaro (University of Vienna)

Is the elephant singing a song? Digital humanities research using HathiTrust & the HathiTrust Research Center
Joseph Hafner (IAML Vice President, McGill University, Montréal)

Music and images in the Corrado Pavesi Negri photographic collection in the library of the Conservatorio Nicolini
Patrizia Florio (Conservatorio G. Nicolini, Piacenza)

Musical Evangelists: The Life and Work of Music Copyists in the United Kingdom During the Early-Mid Twentieth Century, With Particular Reference to Rosina “Rosie” Bramson
Margaret Jones (Cambridge University Library)

Musiconn.Scoresearch: a content-based search application for digitized music prints based on OMR
Jürgen Diet (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

Non Print Legal Deposit at the German National Library
Ruprecht Langer (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig)

Non-Print Legal Deposit for Digital Sheet Music in the UK
Rupert Ridgewell (British Library)

Resurrecting Galuppi: Toward a Critical Edition of Li tre amanti ridicoli
Jim Cassaro (University of Pittsburgh)

Surveying composers: methods of distribution, discoverability, and accessibility of their works and the corresponding impact on library collections
Sandi-Jo Malmon (Harvard University) and Elizabeth Berndt-Morris (Harvard University, Cambridge MA)

Year: 2018

Academic music libraries in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s: the infancy of the music library in Japan
Mari Itoh (AIchi Shukutoku University, Nagoya) and Hitoshi Matsushita (Meiji University, Higashi-Murayama)

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)

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)

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)

Findings from a survey on local music collecting and collections in Canadian libraries
Carolyn Doi (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon) and Sean Luyk (University of Alberta)

IncipitSearch – musicological incipit research interlinked
Frederic von Vlahovits (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz) and Anna Neovesky (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz)

Infrastructures for a democratic musicology
Timothy Duguid (University of Glasgow)

Institutionalization of music practice: the archive of the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
Ira Prodanov (University of Novi Sad, Academy of Arts)

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)

Making noise: sounds of the civil rights movement in the Dartmouth College Music Library (text)
Memory Apata (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)

Música a la llum: the Access to Music Archives IAML project adapted to the wind bands of the region of Valencia
Jorge Garcia (Valencia Institute of Culture)

Musica Brasilis – making available Brazilian classical music scores
Rosana Lanzelotte (Instituto Musica Brasilis, Rio de Janeiro)

A network of early British legal deposit music explored through modern networking
Karen McAulay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow)

Opera in the church. Arias from the music collection of the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz (handout)
Magdalena Walter-Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

Opera in the church. Arias from the music collection of the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz (slides)
Magdalena Walter-Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

A voice from the past: following the document
Radmila Milinković (University of Arts, Belgrade)

Warm corners, fog and cheap cotton: sundry journeys from Leipzig to Manchester (paper)
Geoff Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)

Warm corners, fog and cheap cotton: sundry journeys from Leipzig to Manchester (slides)
Geoff Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)

Year: 2017

Archiving a living composer: building Arvo Pärt’s personal archive
Kai Kutman and Anneli Kivisiv (Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa)

Can libraries be competitive? The Music Library of Greece as an example of a changing organization in the age of crisis
Vera Kriezi (Music Library of Greece of The Friends of Music Society, Athens)

Corpus monodicum – an online long-term research project on medieval chant and its digital tool “mono:di”
Werner J. Wolff (Notengrafik Berlin, Berlin)

The Finnish folk music collector Erkki Ala-Könni: digital collection catalogues as a research material
Outi Elina Valo (University of Tampere, Tampere)

Les entrées de documents nés numériques au département de la Musique / Arrival of native digital documents in the Music Department, BnF
Antoine Provansal and Clotilde Angleys (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)

A post-canon music library: finding, collecting and promoting divergent collections at the UCLA Music Library (slides)
Callie Holmes and Matthew Vest (UCLA Music Library, Los Angeles, CA)

A post-canon music library: finding, collecting and promoting divergent collections at the UCLA Music Library (slides and notes)<
Callie Holmes and Matthew Vest (UCLA Music Library, Los Angeles, CA)

Visualizing catalogue data: mapping local music in a digital environment
Carolyn Doi (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon)

What were Mennonites singing when they traveled through the Red Gate into Latvia?
Anita Breckbill (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln NE)

Year: 2016

The cataloging of self ‐ published items in libraries
Reed David (University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska), Nurhak Tuncer (City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago)

A century of music in the Historical Archive of Teatro Regio in Parma through the documents of a cosmopolite musician: Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Federica Biancheri (Casa della Musica, Historical Archive of Teatro Regio; University of Parma)

Digital exhibitions: An innovative way to valorize musicological research and communication though MOVIO (Luigi Canepa)
Maria Teresa Natale (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU), Rome), Manuela Di Donato (Conservatorio di musica ‘N. Rota’, Monopoli (Bari)), Elena Zomparelli (Conservatorio di musica ‘L.Perosi’, Campobasso)

Digital exhibitions: An innovative way to valorize musicological research and communication though MOVIO (Orazio Fiume)
Maria Teresa Natale (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU), Rome), Manuela Di Donato (Conservatorio di musica ‘N. Rota’, Monopoli (Bari)), Elena Zomparelli (Conservatorio di musica ‘L.Perosi’, Campobasso)

The dilemma of using China National Classification Scheme in the Music catalog and the application of cutter number in music cataloging in Suzhou University, School of Music LibraryLi Kung Chi (Soochow University School of Music Library, Suzhou)

Expression beyond Scope: How FRBR and MEI fit together
Johannes Kepper and Kristina Richts (Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) – The estate in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) – Prussian Cultural Heritage. Ways of indexing and presentation in the anniversary year of his 150th birthday
Marina Schieke‐Gordienko (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)

Guide to Digital Scores
Darwin F. Scott (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)

The Hans and Alice Tischler Collection in the Indiana University William & Gayle Cook Music Library
Charles Peters (William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN), Carla Williams (Ohio University, Athens, OH)

The impact of BIBFRAME on technical services: The UC Davis BibFlow Project
Michael Colby (The University Library, University of California, Davis, CA)

IMSLP, TPP, TTIP, FTAs, ACTA, and other initials to do with music copyright today
Phillippa McKeown ‐ Green (The Music and Dance Library – Te Herenga Puoru, University of Auckland, Auckland)

An investigation into TEI and MEI models for indexing and analysis of librettos and other sources of performance history
David A. Day (Brigham Young University, Provo)

Kathleen Parlow: A life in letters – The development of a framework for Correspondence Collections at the University of Toronto Music Library
Lelland Reed (University of Toronto Music Library)

Marciana musical treasures
Anna Claut and Elisabetta Sciarra (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice)

Musical map of Hungary
Rita Zsófia Kaizinger (Music Library of the Hungarian National Philharmonics, Budapest)

Online access to the collection François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1871): Challenges and difficulties of an outstanding digitization project
Frederic Lemmers (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels)

Re‐conceptualising medium of performance for the Linked Data environment
Kimmy Szeto (City University of New York)

Texas, Where Americans, Mexicans, Germans, and Italians Meet: The Hauschild Music Collection at the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives
Felicia Piscitelli (Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas)

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The Forum of Sections plays a key role in creating the professional programme of IAML Congresses.

Travel support

Background

Officers

The Forum of Sections plays a key role in creating the professional programme of IAML Congresses.

Activities

Materials presented in the sessions

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