Music Research in the Digital Age: joint IAML/IMS Congress

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML)

“Music Research in the Digital Age,” the theme of our joint New York conference, not only focuses attention on the past, present, and future of digital musicology, but also evokes a long tradition of cooperation between the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centers.

The conference will include a celebration of RILM’s 50th anniversary. RILM’s Editor-in-Chief, Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, is President of IAML and Director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at The Graduate Center, CUNY. The vast legacy of Barry S. Brook, founder of RILM (1965) and co-founder of RIdIM (1971), IAML President (1977–1980), and already a pioneer in computer applications to musicology in the 1960s, stands as a symbol of the symbiotic relationship between musicology and music librarianship that has driven the work of many scholars before and since his time. Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie; Jane Gottlieb, Vice President for Library and Information Resources, Graduate Studies, The Juilliard School; and Jim Cassaro, Head, Theodore M. Finney Music Library, University of Pittsburgh, are co-chairs of the overall Organizing Committee. Stanisław Hrabia, Music Librarian in the Department of Music at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, is the chair of IAML’s Programme Committee; Malena Kuss, Professor Emeritus of Musicology, University of North Texas, Denton, and IMS Vice-President, is chair of the IMS Programme Committee. Both IAML and IMS programme committees will collaborate to create joint sessions.