News archive
New Brochure "RISM: An Overview"
A new version of the RISM brochure is now available. RISM: An Overview is a 12-page, full-color brochure in English and German that describes RISM’s goals, projects, and organization. The new brochure has been updated for 2022 and includes new information on how to contribute to RISM. The brochure is...
30 August 2022 – New publications
Second IAML Congress Diary from Prague
We continue our reflections on the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres congress in Prague. Part one can be found here. Von Guido Kraus: Nach einer dreijährigen Pandemie bedingten Pause war es wieder soweit. Das internationale Musikbibliothekswesen gab sich ein Stelldichein in der historischen Metropole Prag ganz...
23 August 2022 – Events
First IAML Congress Diary from Prague
The RISM Editorial Center was well represented at this year’s annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres in Prague. In traditional IAML Congress Diary style, we offer you the first of our impressions from Prague, with the usual linguistic mix. Part two will follow...
18 August 2022 – Events
Animal of the Year 2022: Donkey
As in previous years, various organizations have made selections for a plant or animal “of the year” for 2022. The German environmental organization NABU has a good overview. Apart from this list, the non-profit organization Bündnis Mensch & Tier has picked the donkey as the domestic animal of the year....
11 August 2022 – In the news
Antoine Reicha Rediscovered
We have received the following from Jana Franková and François-Pierre Goy: The works of the long undeservedly forgotten French composer of Bohemian origin, Antoine Reicha (1770–1836, also known as Anton Reicha and Antonín Rejcha), have aroused renewed interest in the past decade. To celebrate his 250th birthday, the Moravian Library...
4 August 2022 – New publications
RISM Online launched at the IAML congress in Prague
We are pleased to announce the public launch of RISM Online, a new service designed by our colleagues at the RISM Digital Center. This search tool is intended to complement the RISM Catalog that our users have known for many years, and provide them with alternative ways and means of...
28 July 2022 – Events
The Thematic Catalogue of the Music Collection of P. Barnabas Weiss
We have received the following from Zuzana Petrášková and Eliška Šedivá (National Library of the Czech Republic): The latest thematic catalogue in the series “Catalogus artis musicae in Bohemia et Moravia cultae” published to date is dedicated to a collection of music established during the course of the 19th century...
21 July 2022 – New publications
RISM at the 2022 IAML Congress in Prague
This year’s annual IAML Congress will take place in Prague from 24–29 July, an event we look forward to every year—and this year even more so, after two years of postponements due to the coronavirus pandemic. RISM has a full week of events planned, capping off with a special RISM...
14 July 2022 – Events
Muscat Workshop in Warsaw
A workshop on cataloging musical sources took place 21–22 June 2022 at the Chopin Institute in Warsaw. Guido Kraus from the RISM Editorial Center introduced new and old Polish colleagues to the topic of music documentation using Muscat. Present at the workshop were Danuta Popinigis (RISM Gdańsk; RISM library siglum:...
7 July 2022 – New at RISM
IFMuC: Musical Heritage in Catalonia
We have received the following from Josep Maria Gregori i Cifré (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Catalonia is one of the few European regions on its way to discovering the richness of its musical heritage with respect to the repertory of compositions by its chapel masters, organists and musicians, which are...
30 June 2022 – Library collections
