The UK & Ireland branch of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML UK & Irl) this year holds its Annual Study Weekend at Trinity College Dublin on 11-14 June 2004. IAML is the professional association for music libraries and librarians, and for anyone working with music (including library users, musicians, publishers, suppliers, and broadcasting authorities). The conference is open to non-members, and provides an excellent opportunity to learn about key issues and new developments in music libraries, and also to meet music specialists working in all library sectors in these islands.

A full and varied programme is planned. Amongst the subjects covered are Irish art music in a postcolonial world (Harry White); The Irish Traditional Music Archive and its holdings (Nicholas Carolan); The iconography of music in nineteenth-century Ireland (Barra Boydell); Ebenezer Prout (Rosemary Firman); and Leos Janácek (John Tyrrell). In addition there will be seminars on fund-raising, music in children’s libraries, developments in international cataloguing standards, and New Grove online, as well as professional updates on a variety of projects and topics of interest. On the lighter side there will be a short recital by renowned harpist Cliona Doris, excursions to Powerscourt and the Guinness Storehouse, and a walking tour of Dublin sites of musical interest led by Barra Boydell. The conference dinner will be held in the Westbury Hotel.

The Music Libraries Trust offers a limited number of bursaries to students and music librarians new to the profession who wish to attend the ASW.

Details of the programme, booking procedures and bursaries are available on the IAML (UK & Irl) web site or from Roy Stanley, Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2. Email rstanley@tcd.ie