RILM will participate at the eighth biennial conference of the International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA) in Nanning, China, 19–21 September 2025.

The aim of IMSEA is to provide a forum for exchanges among music researchers in the region, regardless of their areas of specializations and subjects of studies.

On Saturday, 20 September, 2:00–2:30 pm local time, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will present his paper “Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung 沈福宗 and his sheng” on the panel Transmission and Adaptation of Instruments.  

Please feel free to find Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or say hello. For more details on this event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference schedule.

RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Dresden, Germany, 16–19 September 2025.

This event represents the group’s annual working and training conference for professionals from all areas of the German music library system.

On Wednesday, 17 September, at 1:00 pm local time, Editor Georg Burgstaller will give a presentation on RILM’s newest product, the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines. 

In addition, Georg will be present at the RILM exhibitor’s booth throughout the conference. Please feel free to come by to ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more details on this event on the conference website, which includes the conference schedule.

In January 2026, RILM Music Encyclopedias will welcome significant additions to its expanding collection of historical and current reference works:

• Igor de Gandarias, Diccionario de la música en Guatemala (rev. ed.; Ciudad de Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 2024) xv, 193 p. — In Spanish.
• Frank Daykin, Encyclopedia of French art song: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2013) vi, 739 p. — In English.
• Hugo Riemann, ed., Musik-Lexikon (5th edition; Leipzig: Max Hesse’s Verlag, 1900) xxiii, 1284 p. — In German.

These titles underline RILM Music Encyclopedias’s hallmark of offering comprehensive, international, subject-specific coverage through full-text content. 

The Diccionario de la música en Guatemala is the first reference work dedicated to the nation’s diverse musical traditions, encompassing Indigenous, colonial, and contemporary influences. The Encyclopedia of French art song provides an in-depth exploration of individual mélodies by Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, bridging performance practice with scholarly research. Complementing these region- and genre-specific volumes is the fifth edition of Hugo Riemann’s Musik-Lexikon; this edition joins the eleventh (edited by Alfred Einstein). Together, these additions highlight RILM Music Encyclopedias’ critical role in preserving, contextualizing, and deepening global understandings of musical traditions and its historiography. 

RILM Music Encyclopedias is available via EBSCOhost and on RILM’s platform, Egret, at rme.rilm.org.

For further information, please contact encyclopedias@rilm.org.

RILM will participate in the international workshop Digitize. Transform. Inspire: Shaping the archives of tomorrow in Vienna, Austria, 1–2 September 2025.

Executive Director Tina Frühauf will be in attendance to collaborate with attendees from all continents looking to explore how digital archives can be unlocked through digitization, innovative technologies, and cross-sector partnerships.

RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added eight more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:

• Българско музикознание [B”lgarsko muzikoznanie/Bulgarian musicology]. Sofiâ: B”lgarskata Akademiâ na Naukite, Institut za Izkustvoznanie, 1977–. ISSN 0204-823X
• Canadian winds/Vents canadiens: Journal of the Canadian Band Association/Revue de l’Association canadienne des harmonies. Toronto: Canadian Band Association/Association Canadienne de l’Harmonie, 2002–. ISSN 1703-5295
• Fontes artis musicae. Madison: A-R Editions, 1954–. ISSN 0015-6191
• 関渡音樂學刊 [Guandu yinyue xuekan]/Kuandu music journal. Taibei: Guoli Taibei Yishu Daxue/Taipei National University of the Arts, 2004–. ISSN 1814-1889
• Journal of Christian musicology. Ilé-Ifẹ̀: Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020–. ISSN 2782-8433
• Liuteria, musica e cultura: Organo ufficiale dell’Associazione liutaria italiana. Cremona: Associazione Liuteria Italiana, 2006–. ISSN 1825-7054
• Studi musicali. Firenze: Leo S. Oschki, 1972–2009. ISSN 0391-7789 and eISSN 2037-6413
• Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Beihefte der Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2017–. ISSN 0930-9578

These additions exemplify RILM’s commitment to providing full-text content that is truly international in scope, with coverage that embraces a diversity of languages, nations, subject matter, and approaches to music research.

B”lgarsko muzikoznanie/Bulgarian musicology, the Journal of Christian musicology, and Liuteria, musica e cultura exist in a digital format only in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text. And B”lgarsko muzikoznanie and the Kuandu music journal are published in countries that are represented in RAFT for the first time: Bulgaria and Taiwan, respectively.

If you do not already subscribe to RILM Abstracts with Full Text, get in touch with your EBSCO sales representative, or email information@ebsco.com.

RILM will participate in the 23rd biennial international meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) in Paris, France, from 7 to 11 July 2025.

On Monday, 7 July 2025, at 12:00 pm CEST/6:00 am EDT, Tina Frühauf, RILM’s Executive Director, along with Beatriz Goubert and Lindsey Eckenroth—RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM)‘s Product Coordinator and Data Coordinator, respectively—will deliver a keynote presentation on RAPMM. The presentation will address RILM’s coverage of popular music studies; the organization’s commitment to safeguarding and preservation; and the history, curatorial process, and technology behind RAPMM.

Please feel free to find any of us and ask questions, provide feedback, or say hello. For more details on this exciting event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference schedule.

RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Salzburg, Austria, from 6 to 11 July 2025.

On Thursday, 10 July 2025, at 4:00pm CEST/10:00am EDT, Tina Frühauf, RILM’s Executive Director, will chair the RILM general information session. Tina will be joined by Zdravko Blažeković, RILM’s Executive Editor and RILM Abstracts and DEUMM Product Development Coordinator, and Jadranka Važanová, RILM’s Senior Editor and RAFT Product Development Coordinator, as speakers on the panel. Tina’s presentation “Towards safeguarding, preservation, and cultural diversity: RILM and UNESCO” will be followed by Jadranka’s review of “RILM in 2025” and by Zdravko’s presentation “Barry S. Brook in retrospective: Salzburg 1979”.

RILM’s Commission Mixte will convene on Friday, 11 July, at 11:00am CEST/5:00am EDT.

On Wednesday, 9 July, at 11:00am CEST/5:00am EDT, Jadranka will chair the RILM Business Meeting for National Committees. That evening, RILM will host a reception for IAML attendees (open to all conference attendees, RSVP required).

Please feel free to find any of us and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more details on this exciting event on the conference website, which also includes a link to a PDF with the preliminary conference schedule.

RILM will attend, for the first time, the joint regional conference of the Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE) and the International Society for Music Education (ISME), on 1–4 July 2025 at Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda. The theme for this year’s conference focuses on advancing musical arts education across the region, emphasizing the integration of indigenous knowledge systems, innovative practices, and policy development in music education.

On Wednesday, 2 July, at 2:00pm–4:00pm local time, Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the symposium Balancing Global and Local Knowledge – Challenges and Opportunities Through Music Research and Education, and present the first paper, titled “Glocal Knowledge and Bibliodiversity in Culture and Arts Education”.  

Please feel free to find Tina to learn more about all of RILM’s resources, ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can also find more details on this event in the conference program and on the conference website.

RILM will participate in the Teaching Music History Conference at New York University, 20–22 June 2025, organized by the American Musicological Society. 

On Saturday, 21 June, 9–9:30am EDT, Associate Editor Stella Li and Editor Ralph Whyte will give a joint presentation on the Global Music History panel entitled “Bibliodiversity in music history pedagogy: Expanding global perspectives through multilingual scholarship”. Ralph and Stella will discuss how non-English-language sources can enrich music history syllabi.  

To learn more about the event, go to the conference website, or read the program.

RILM participated in the 46th annual conference of Middle East Librarians Committee (MELCom) International, a hybrid event hosted by the Library of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, 20–22 May, 2025. 

On Thursday, 22 May, 10:00–10:30am CET, editor Farah Zahra, along with Olga Andriyanova of the Institut du monde arabe (IMA), discussed outcomes from the three-year partnership between RILM and the IMA in a presentation entitled, “IMA’s library collections on Arab music: The IMA–RILM collaboration”.

To learn more about the event, head to the conference website, or peruse the program.