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Service and Training
Terms of reference
The purpose of the Service and Training Section is essentially twofold. It provides a forum for the discussion and development of training programmes, not only for those working in music libraries but also their users, as well as for showcasing and promoting those tools and resources through which such training can be delivered.
History
The Service and Training Section came into being in 1975, initially as the Commission for Education and Training. Its purpose is essentially twofold. It provides a forum for the discussion and development of training progammes, not only for those working in music libraries but also their users, as well as for show-casing and promoting those tools and resources through which such training can be delivered.
- Courses and Education for library staff who work with music: a UK perspective (presentation of the training courses offered by the UK & Ireland branch of IAML; Hungary, 2009)
Officers:
2024 – 2027
Chair: Nathalie Hristov, University of Tennessee, U.S.A.
Vice-Chair: Erin Conor, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Secretary: Katherine Penner, University of Manitoba, Canada
Past officers:
2021-2024:
Katherine Penner, Canada (chair) – Erin Conor, U.S.A. (vice-chair) – Nathalie Hristov, U.S.A. (secretary)
2017-2021:
Anna Pensaert, UK (chair) – Kirstin Dougan, USA (vice-chair) – Alexandros Charkiolakis, Greece (secretary)
2014 – 2017:
Jane Gottlieb, USA (chair) – Kirstin Dougan, USA (vice-chair) – Anna Pensaert, UK (secretary)
2008 – 2014:
Geoffrey Thomason, UK (chair) – John Wagstaff, USA (vice-chair) – Jürgen Diet, Germany (secretary)
2005 – 2008:
Wolfgang Krueger, Germany (chair) – Christiane Kriloff, France (vice-chair) – Mary Wallace Davidson, USA (secretary)
2002 – 2005:
Wolfgang Krueger, Germany (chair) – Christiane Kriloff, France (vice-chair) – Mary Wallace Davidson, USA (secretary)
1999 – 2002:
Mary Key Duggan, USA (chair) – Tine Vind, Denmark (vice-chair) – Dominique Hausfater, France (secretary)
Activities
- Service and Training Section – 2022 Post-Congress Report
- Service and Training Section – Congress Summary 2019
- Service and Training Section – Congress Summary 2018
- Service and Training Section – Report 2017
- Service and training – Report 2016
- Sessions at 2001 conference in Perigueux
- Sessions at 2000 conference in Edinburgh
- Sessions at 1999 conference in Wellington
- Report from 2009 conference in Amsterdam
- Report from 2008 conference in Naples
- Report from 2007 conference in Sydney
- Report from 2006 conference in Göteborg
- Report from 2005 conference in Warsaw
- Report from 2004 conference in Oslo
- Programme for 2003 conference in Tallinn
- Programme for 2002 conference in Berkeley
- Programme for 1998 conference in San Sebastian
- Programme for 1997 conference in Geneva
Materials presented in the sessions
- Advocacy and digital scores: Toward a model license and prioritiesStephanie Bonjack (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Reprographics, reluctance and risk: library copying of scores for usersClaire Kidwell (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London)
- Academic writing support – a new field of activity for music librarians?!Barbara Fuchslehner (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna) and Anna Eberhöfer (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
- New model of work: McGill’s hybrid shared office experiment (recording; for IAML members only)Joseph Hafner, Megan Chellew, Maryvon Côté and Andrew Senior (McGill University, Montréal)
- New model of work: McGill’s hybrid shared office experiment (slides)Joseph Hafner, Megan Chellew, Maryvon Côté and Andrew Senior (McGill University, Montréal)
- Active and authentic: student-centered learning in the music libraryGrace Haynes (Michigan State University, East Lansing)
- “But I’ve Come Here to Study the Piano”: The Challenges of Information Literacy in a Conservatoire Environment (slides)Geoff Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)
- “But I’ve Come Here to Study the Piano”: The Challenges of Information Literacy in a Conservatoire Environment (text)Geoff Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)
- Everyday succession planning in music librariesJanneka Guise (University of Toronto)
- Critical information literacy in the music classroomErin Conor (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
- Gaming and Information Literacy for music students: An interactive event in the classroomWilma Abbink (Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen)
- Special libraries do special things: A music library’s contribution to the music education community in GreeceStephanie Merakos (Music Library of Greece of the Friends of Music Society, Athens)
- Searching for music in the digital ageKirstin Dougan
- My library has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Notes to the presentationRémi Castonguay (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
- My library has a Facebook page and a Twitter account: Now what!?!Rémi Castonguay (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
- Dresden – Cambridge – London 2012. Bericht über einen Fachaufenthalt in wissenschaftlichen MusikbibliothekenInes Pampel (Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Educational training programs for the professional development of music library staff: the current situation in GermanyJürgen Diet (Bavarian State Library Music Department, München)
- Helping ourselves: IAML(UK)’s courses on advanced reference sources in musicAngela Escott and John Wagstaff