Music Librarianship in the United Kingdom: Fifty Years of the United Kingdom Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres

Contents:
Fifty years of IAML(UK) / Brian Redfern and Ruth Hellen -- 'Shrouded in mystery' : the development of music provision in public libraries in Great Britain, 1850-1950 / Malcolm Lewis -- Music information skills at the University of Reading / Christopher Cipkin -- 'The turning wheel' : training for music librarianship over 50 years / Ian Ledsham -- Musaurus and MusBib / Ann Harrold and Graham Lea -- 'The most intricate bibliographical enigma' : understanding George Thomson (1757-1851) and his collections of national airs / Kirsteen McCue -- Con Brio : a history of the Branch journal / Malcolm Jones -- Making a library for IAML(UK) / John Wagstaff -- The unique first edition of Byrd's Gradualia in York Minster Library / Richard Turbet -- Information technology and music libraries / Julie Crawley -- Larks ascending : co-operation in music libraries, the last 50 years / Pamela Thompson -- Cecilia : towards a map of the music resource of the UK and Ireland / Paul Andrews -- Greater than the sum of its parts : towards a national service for music performance material / Malcolm Jones and John Gough -- International outreach : fireworks of the 1990s? / Roger Taylor -- Things to come, or, ignorance is not Bliss so don't shoot the messenger! / Eric Cooper.