International Association of Music Libraries
United States Branch / IAML-US

Association Internationale des Bibliothèques, Archives et Centres de Documentation Musicaux
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
Internationale Vereinigung der Musikbibliotheken, Musikarchive und Musikdokumentationszentren

Annual Reports 2009 Annual Report 2008 Annual Report 2007 Annual Report 2006 Annual Report 2005 Annual Report	IAML-US By-Laws
Officers and Board of Directors President (2008-2011): Judy Tsou Head, Music Library University of Washington Box 353450 Seattle, WA 98195-3450 Ph: 206-685-3140 Fx: 206-685-9499 jstsou@u.washington.edu	Past President (2008-2011): Mary Wallace Davidson Librarian Emerita 201 Virginia Road Concord, MA 01742 Ph: 978-369-5403 mdavidso@indiana.edu
Secretary (2008-2011): Manuel Erviti Assistant Head, Hargrove Music Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Ph: 510-642-2428 Fx: 510-642-8237 merviti@library.berkeley.edu	Treasurer (2008-2011): Michael Colby Cataloging and Metadata Services Shields Library 100 N. West Quad University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616 Ph: 530-752-0931 Fx: 530-754-8785 mdcolby@ucdavis.edu
Member-at-Large (2006-2009): Elizabeth A. Davis Head, Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library Columbia University 2960 Broadway, 7th floor New York, NY 10027 Ph: 212-854-7604 davise@columbia.edu	Member-at-Large (2008-2011): John D. Shepard Head, Hargrove Music Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Ph: 510-642-2428 Fx: 510-642-8237 jshepard@library.berkeley.edu
International Board Member (2007-2010): James P. Cassaro Head, Music Library University of Pittsburgh B-30 Music Building Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Ph: 412-624-4131 cassaro@pitt.edu

History

Music librarians from the United States have been involved in IAML from its inception in 1951, though the actual date of the organization of a IAML-US branch is apparently not documented. IAML's first Bulletin d'Information 1, 1 (October 1952): 7, observed that numerically the US had by far the largest of the national groups. Indeed, the first published list of IAML members, found in the subsequent Bulletin d'Information 1, 2 (March 1953): 8-9, lists 11 institutional members and 39 individual members from the United States, including IAML President Richard S. Hill. The first Bulletin 1, 1 (October 1952): 7, also expected that the US group, as an official national branch, "devra certainement se constituer au sein de la M.L.A. et peut être même se fondre avec elle." Unlike other national branches of IAML, which were only then starting to develop in order to serve as the sole organization for music librarians, the United States already had one such professional organization in the 1950s—the Music Library Association (MLA).

Founded in 1931 and already a vigorous association at the founding of IAML, MLA has coexisted with and played a mixed role in the development of the US Branch of IAML. The course of the relationship between IAML-US and MLA appears already in the brief announcement in MLA Notes 12, 1 (December 1954): 59, of an organizing meeting for a "tighter, better articulated" US branch of IAML: "In the United States, the overlapping interests of MLA and IAML make the development of a branch awkward, particularly since the proper moment has not yet come for suggesting that MLA as a whole become (organizationally speaking, of course) a branch of IAML." For IAML-US, counting 137 institutional and 88 individual members in 2006, that moment is still coming. (See, for example, the discussion of the MLA/IAML-US ad hoc Committee Report in the MLA Board Minutes of October, 2004, p. 12.) "Despite this non-integration," James Cassaro observed in a recent MLA President's Report, MLA Newsletter , No. 130 (September-October, 2002), p. 2, "a powerful symbiotic relationship has emerged between these two organizations for American music librarianship."