Music librarianship in the United Kingdom : fifty years of the United Kingdom Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries / edited by Richard Turbet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turbet, Richard.

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres. United Kingdom Branch.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music librarianship--Great Britain.

Music librarianship.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xix, 252 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

1 Fifty years of IAML(UK) / Brian Redfern, Ruth Hellen 1

2 'Shrouded in mystery': the development of music provision in public libraries in Great Britain, 1850-1950 / Malcolm Lewis 17

3 Music information skills at the University of Reading / Christopher Cipkin 57

4 'The turning wheel': training for music librarianship over 50 years / Ian Ledsham 74

5 Musaurus and MusBib / Ann Harrold, Graham Lea 84

6 'The most intricate bibliographical enigma': understanding George Thomson (1757-1851) and his collections of national airs / Kirsteen McCue 99

7 Con Brio: a history of the Branch journal / Malcolm Jones 120

8 Making a library for IAML(UK) / John Wagstaff 127

9 The unique first edition of Byrd's Gradualia in York Minster Library / Richard Turbet 137

10 Information technology and music libraries / Julie Crawley 141

11 Larks ascending: co-operation in music libraries - the last 50 years / Pamela Thompson 172

12 Cecilia: towards a map of the music resource of the UK and Ireland / Paul Andrews 200

13 Greater than the sum of its parts: towards a national service for music performance material / Malcolm Jones, John Gough 209

14 International outreach: fireworks of the 1990s? / Roger Taylor 220

15 Things to come - or, ignorance is not Bliss so don't shoot the messenger! / Eric Cooper 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754605728

OCLC:

50314698