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RISM Catalog fully switched to new technical platform
A beta version of the RISM Catalog based on the open source discovery system VuFind was released in November 2023. At the same time, access to the existing online catalog was initially maintained. On 9 December 2024, the old TouchPoint-based system will be discontinued permanently. The RISM Catalog now appears...
5 December 2024 – Catalogue RISM en ligne
Muscat Cataloging Workshop in Zagreb
The following has reached us from Lucija Konfic of RISM Croatia. Following several lectures on RISM cataloging offered to students in Zagreb and Varaždin, a public workshop about cataloging musical sources with the Muscat application was held in Zagreb on 11 and 12 October 2024. The event took place at...
28 November 2024 – Evénements
Bernard Huys In Memoriam
We have received the following from Marie Cornaz (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België): It is with sadness that we learned of the death on 12 October 2024 of our Belgian colleague and friend Bernard Huys (1934-2024), who served as IAML Vice-President from 1986 to 1989. He...
21 November 2024 – In memoriam
Microfilms? Microfilms! 70 Years of the German Archive of Music History
On 1 October 1954 the Musikgeschichtliche Kommission, a free association of renowned musicologists and music librarians, laid the foundation stone for the German Archive of Music History (Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv, DMgA), which has been located in Kassel since its founding. With an eye to the substantial changes caused by the...
14 November 2024 – Collections de bibliothèques
Manuscript found in New York
The following article by Artur Szklener originally appeared on the website of The Frederik Chopin Institut and is published here with kind permission. On the 27th October, The New York Times reported on an unknown manuscript by Fryderyk Chopin found in the Morgan Library in New York. These revelations were...
7 November 2024 – Redécourvertes
Music of Funerals, Death, and Mourning
In view of the upcoming religious festivals and holidays – such as Halloween, Reformation Day, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day, as well as the Sunday of the Dead – it seems fitting to take a closer look at compositions related to the topic of funerals, death, and mourning. The...
31 October 2024 – Evénements
Digitised music manuscripts made available online
The following originally appeared on the Music Blog of the British Library and is posted here under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. Following the cyber-attack on the British Library last year, staff have been working behind the scenes to restore access to the Library’s digitised manuscripts. The Library has now...
24 October 2024 – Collections de bibliothèques
Updating RISM Series C
At the IAML Congress in Cambridge last year, the RISM Editorial Center announced an opportunity for our international community to update RISM’s Series C, the Directory of Music Research Libraries. The Directory is anchored in RISM’s objective to document the locations of musical sources worldwide. Series C provides descriptions of...
17 October 2024 – Nouveau au RISM
2024 IAML Germany Annual Meeting in Frankfurt am Main
From 17 to 20 September 2024 the annual meeting of the German branch of IAML (International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres) took place in Frankfurt am Main. The German National Library was the main venue, and they along with the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Oper...
10 October 2024 – Evénements
Musical discoveries from English local archives
The previous RISM news item introduced the project Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England’s County Record Offices, led by Royal Holloway, University of London. This article introduces some of the sources recently discovered or catalogued in the project, to show the range of musical heritage found in...
4 October 2024 – Collections de bibliothèques