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.