Music Librarianship in the UK: Fifty Years of the British Branch of the International Association of Music Librarians
Subtitle: Fifty Years of the British Branch of the International Association of Music Librarians
By: R.B. Turbet
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781315191430; 9781351752077; 9781351752053
Subjects: History; Music librarianship; Bibliothéconomie musicale; Histoire; International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres. United Kingdom Branch; International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres
Description: "This title was first published in 2003. The UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries was founded in 1953. This volume of specially commissioned essays celebrates the golden jubilee of branch's foundation and surveys the achievements of the last 50 years. With an emphasis on practical music librarianship, the essays examine the challenges that have faced the profession in recent years, as well as current developments in the field and the impact of modern advances in information technology."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Fifty years of IAML(UK)  -- Brian Redfern Ruth Hellen; title: chapter 2 'Shrouded in mystery': the development of music provision in public libraries in Great Britain, 1850-1950  -- Malcolm Lewis; title: chapter 3 Music information skills at the University of Reading  -- Christopher Cipkin; title: chapter 4 'The turning wheel': training for music librarianship over 50 years  -- Ian Ledsham; title: chapter 5 Musaurus and MusBib  -- Ann Harrold Graham Lea; title: chapter 6 'The most intricate bibliographical enigma': understanding George Thomson (1757-1851) and his collections of national airs  -- Kirsteen McCue; title: chapter 7 Con Brio: a history of the Branch journal  -- Malcolm Jones; title: chapter 8 Making a library for IAML(UK)  -- John Wagstaff; title: chapter 9 The unique first edition of Byrd's Gradualia in York Minster Library  -- Richard Turbet; title: chapter 10 Information technology and music libraries*  -- Julie Crawley; title: chapter 11 Larks ascending: co-operation in music libraries -- the last 50 years  -- Pamela Thompson; title: chapter 12 Cecilia: towards a map of the music resource of the UK and Ireland  -- Paul Andrews; title: chapter 13 Greater than the sum of its parts: towards a national service for music performance material  -- Malcolm Jones John Gough; title: chapter 14 International outreach: fireworks of the 1990s?  -- Roger Taylor; title: chapter 15 Things to come -- or, ignorance is not Bliss so don't shoot the messenger! -- Eric Cooper.