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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 Adobe Acrobat logo

2009 Annual Report
2008 Annual Report
2007 Annual Report
2006 Annual Report
2005 Annual Report




IAML-US By-Laws Adobe Acrobat logo
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 Adobe Acrobat logo 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 Adobe Acrobat logo of October, 2004, p. 12.) "Despite this non-integration," James Cassaro observed in a recent MLA President's Report, MLA Newsletter Adobe Acrobat logo, No. 130 (September-October, 2002), p. 2, "a powerful symbiotic relationship has emerged between these two organizations for American music librarianship."