Music Librarianship in the UK:: Fifty Years of the British Branch of the International Association of Music Librarians

Contents

• 1: Fifty years of IAML(UK)
• 2: ‘Shrouded in mystery’: the development of music provision in public libraries in Great Britain, 1850–1950
• 3: Music information skills at the University of Reading
• 4: ‘The turning wheel’: training for music librarianship over 50 years
• 5: Musaurus and MusBib
• 6: ‘The most intricate bibliographical enigma’: understanding George Thomson (1757–1851) and his collections of national airs
• 7: Con Brio : a history of the Branch journal
• 8: Making a library for IAML(UK)
• 9: The unique first edition of Byrd’s Gradualia in York Minster Library
• 10: Information technology and music libraries
• 11: Larks ascending: co-operation in music libraries – the last 50 years
• 12: Cecilia: towards a map of the music resource of the UK and Ireland
• 13: Greater than the sum of its parts: towards a national service for music performance material
• 14: International outreach: fireworks of the 1990s?
• 15: Things to come – or, ignorance is not Bliss so don’t shoot the messenger!