Commission on Service and TrainingAuthor(s): Mary Kay DugganSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 47, No. 4 (October-December 2000), pp. 298-299Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23509113 .

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Commission on Service and Training

"Music Library Education Around the Globe" was the subject of the first session on July 21. The session addressed the posi tion of music, in particular curricula, in New Zealand and the United States, and a new policy for the inclusion of music in

library éducation in France. The first speaker was Rowena Cullen, Head of the

School of Communications and Information

Management, Victoria University of

Wellington, New Zealand. She began by emphasizing that the music gradúate who

needs specialist training to enter the field of music librarianship needs a theoretical un

derstanding of the music publication world, both classical and popular. That désirable éducation does not exist today in an era of

diminishing career opportunities for music librarians, and Ms Cullen voiced interest in

sharing resources internationally through

web-based programs. She then described the existing segment on music that forms a

part of a general reference course at

Victoria University: it is directed at gradu âtes with little knowledge or understanding of the field who may nevertheless find that

music is a significant part of their future po sition. Basic training in musical forms is ac

companied by an introduction to the musi

cal terminology required for use of major

reference tools and indexes.

Dominique Hausfater (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France) described the new

proposai of ENSSIB (Ecole nationale

supérieure des sciences de l'information

et bibliothèques) to include, for the first time in the éducation of future curators of

French state-owned libraries, a short intro

duction to music in libraries. The speaker herself had been invited to make the new

three-hour présentation to students that

would introduce the profession of music li

brarianship to those students who elected

the subject. Students themselves provided

the Ímpetus for ENSSIB's addition of music to the curriculum, in what Hausfater called

an historie step for music librarianship in France. She pointed out a need for continu

ing éducation for those who, because of the

previous omission of music éducation, are

now in charge of music collections despite lack of training. However, there is no assur

ance that ENSSIB's addition of music to the curriculum is a permanent change.

Finally, a présentation via the Internet was made by Nancy Weckwerth (California State University, Los Angeles, United

States) in a multimedia présentation from Los Angeles that included her speaking voice. A course for non-professional music

librarians was developed by music librarían

John Thornbury and Ms Weckwerth, who

is skilled in distance-learning software for the World Wide Web. The course is de signed for those working in libraries or in

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Problems encountered in the conversion of

large quantities of data from disparate

sources. Antony finished with a live démon stration of CADENSA via a telnet connec

tion to the UK. The final speaker was Sherry Vellucci,

Associate Professor in the Division of

Library & Information Science at St John's University, New York, USA. Sherry gave a

lengthy paper on Metadata for Music,

which provided an overview of metadata

characteristics. She discussed several is sues that are critical to the successful im

plementation of metadata, and identified ar

eas for possible LAML activity in the metadata arena.

The second meeting was a joint session

with the Commission on Service and

Training. The focus of this session was on

teaching cataloguing, and is reported on

in detail by the Chair of the Service and

Training Commission.

Finally, Sherry Vellucci reported that a postcard had been received from Sister

Blanche. On her way to New Zealand, S.

Blanche was stranded in Fiji, where she dis carded her habit as a novice and was raised

to the rank of Mother Superior at the is

land's only dual library school and convent,

"Our Lady of Bibliographie Control." She will, however, continue to be the guardián

ángel of IAML, and keep a close eye on ail

things internationally bibliographie

Sherry L. Vellucci, Chair

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REPORTS 299

music organizations with music collections,

and it introduces acquisitions and web sites for vendors, MARC cataloguing and web re

sources for MARC information, reference

tools for online searching, and links to web sites for library Professionals (MLA, IAML, etc.). While students complete the course

offsite, they are required to visit and assess

a music library for the first assignment and

to use a broad range of web resources,

which are supplied both free and under contract to the university. The présentation

ended with a discussion typed into the web course's chat line. In the Wellington Confer

ence room, discussion continued that high lighted current developments in music li

brary éducation by IAML organizations, in the UK (a CD-ROM will soon be published to accompany the University of Aberyst

wyth's course), in the United States, where

the Music Library Association is moving toward provision of continuing éducation

courses or Workshops at various sites, and

in Italy, where a web course is under devel

opment.

Attendance was 71 people, standing

room only.

On Thursday morning July 22 the Com

mission on Service and Training co

sponsored with Libraries in Music

Teaching Institutions Branch the program

"Comparing Access Through the Internet:

Web Sites and Web Catalogues." A report has been submitted by Federica Riva, Chair

of the Branch.

That afternoon the Commission on

Service and Training co-sponsored with the

Cataloguing Commission a session on pro

grams by national IAML organizations to

teach cataloguing. Massimo Gentili

Tedeschi (Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali, Milan) described how, with financial aid from the regional government of Lom

bardy, IAML Italia provided a one-week course on basic music librarianship ("Cataloguing and managing printed and

manuscript music and sound recordings")

at a site in Bergamo with six computers. Another three-day course on video and

sound recordings was given four times last

year, in Lombardy and in the Veneto, where

reports of its success had generated an in

vitation. Two further courses are scheduled

this year. Since in Italy music scores are lo cated in many kinds of library—private, church, conservatory, public library, and

médiathèque—there is a broad need for

knowledge of music cataloguing and man

agement.

The second speaker, Julius Hfllek (Národní Knihovna, Prague) was unable to

attend. Discussion following the présenta

tion on IAML in Italy included a description by Yasuko Todo (Japan) of Workshops there with the support of OCLC. Sherry Vellucci (St John's University, USA) de scribed the goals and contents of her

cataloguing courses, and moves by MLA to

deliver courses or Workshops on music cat

aloguing in the US. Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi also made a

présentation on UNIMARC proposais for a new field for music incipits. The permanent UNIMARC Committee has established a

subgroup of six for music (four from Italy,

including IAML member Agostina Zecca

Laterza, and représentatives from Vilnius

and Zagreb). UNIMARC has asked IAML to name a représentative. A proposai to es

tablish an IAML Working Group on the new field was discussed, to be taken up by the IAML Board.

Mary Kay Duggan

University of California, Berkeley

Working Group on Archives

Registration

The Working Group on the Registration of

Music Archives has been extended by the

Board and the Council for another three

years. In the last three years much has

been accomplished, and below are some

highlights. A prototype database for the Regi

stration of Music Archives has been estab

lished, based on the International Council of Archives' General International Standard of Archivai Descriptions, ISAD(G). The database program chosen for our project

is FileMaker, a powerful off-the-shelf

program. David Day, music librarían at

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