Louise Dyer and Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre: The Establishment of a Music Press 18-19 May 2018, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Parkville The University Library and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, are hosting a symposium on 18–19 May 2018, entitled: “Louise Dyer and Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre: The Establishment of a Music…
IAML Australia members are currently involved in the selection panel for the Letty Katts Award hosted by State Library of Queensland. The Letty Katts Award supports the research and documenting of Queensland’s music history. It gives a musician, composer, scholar or researcher the opportunity to study, experiment and explore new thinking in their art/study, leading…
Russ Bauer from the New England Conservatorium of Music is looking for unwanted music collections. ******** For some time now, the New England Conservatorium of Music has had access to a collection of orchestral scores, miniatures and LP (vinyl) recordings of art music. Sadly, this collection is owned by the local University, who have just…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has recently announced proposed dramatic changes to their Reference and Sound Libraries. These proposed changes if implemented will reduce the number of specialist staff, change services to their customers and see the reduction and relocation of parts of the vast audio collections held by the ABC. In response, the IAML Australia…
From 1993 – 2008 IAML Australia produced the regular print newsletter Intermezzo. It invited contributions from all members and is full of stories and endeavours of its members including editorials, letters to editors, conference reports, humoresques, staff movements and more. Intermezzo has lots of fascinating history of the Association and the evolution of music libraries in…
The Liesbeth Hoedemaeker-Cohen Fund for IAML Congress Travel Call for applications The Liesbeth Hoedemaeker-Cohen Fund for IAML Congress Travel, established by the Cohen family in Liesbeth’s honor, is a cash award intended to help support travel to attend the annual congress. It is open to all individual members of IAML, with priority given to those…
The Score @ The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne: 1 August – 5 November 2017 A musical score is a form of translation. It transcribes sound into drawing, by representing the aural complexities of pitch, rhythm and tempo as visual symbols. The Score expands upon this spirit of transformation to ask, if music can be…
Music history researcher Professor Peter Roennfeldt presented the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre’s Professorial Lecture for 2017 in August. The lecture covers Peter’s long history of music research and his discoveries. Peter lavishes praise on Libraries and IAML Australia Music Librarians (Laurel Dingle SLQ, Evelyn Kruger) throughout his lecture. You might also remember that Peter was a…
Live in Melbourne or going there at the end of October? Then look out for: Music and Iconography Symposium 27 October 2017 University of Melbourne To register and for information: http://icon.mcm.unimelb.edu.au/ A free one-day symposium on Music and Iconography to co-incide with the visit to Australia of Professor Antonio Baldassarre, School of Music, Lucerne University and President of…
This years IAML Australia Canberra conference was a huge success. If you missed it look out for forth coming updates and look through the available photos. If you were there and have photos to share send them to Ryan at or upload to IAML Australia’s Facebook site. Canberra conference 2017 photos
