Canadian Music Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques musicales

Canadian Music Library Association (CMLA)/Association canadienne des bibliothèques musicales (ACBM). Founded in 1956 as a section of the Canadian Library Association, to establish contact between music librarians and carry out projects of interest to them. The membership grew from 37 in the 1950s to about 100 in 1970. Annual meetings coincided with those of the Canadian Library Association. Newsletters appeared in certain years and the CLA issued a number of important bibliographical publications (see list). A brief regarding the role of the National Library of Canada in the area of music was submitted to the national librarian in 1957. CMLA chairmen have been Ogreta McNeill 1956-7, 1964-5, Helmut Kallmann 1957-8, 1967-8, Helen Sinclair 1958-9, Lucien Brochu 1959-60, Melva J. Dwyer 1960-1, Auguste Morisset 1961-2, Laurie Allison 1962-3, Jean Lavender 1963-4, Ronald Napier 1965-6, James Pilton 1966-7, Laura Murray 1968-9, Rhoda Baxter 1969-70, and Lynne Jarman 1970-1. In the absence of a Canadian branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, CMLA kept the international association's Canadian membership records and appointed Helmut Kallmann to serve 1959-71 as its delegate. In 1971 the CMLA was reconstituted as the Canadian Association of Music Libraries.

Bibliography

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Standards for Music Collections in Medium-Sized Public Libraries (Ottawa 1959)

A Bio-bibliographical Finding List of Canadian Musicians and Those Who Have Contributed to Music in Canada (Ottawa 1961)

Union List of Music Periodicals in Canadian Libraries (Ottawa 1964, supplement 1967)

Musical Canadiana; a Subject Index (Ottawa 1967)

Links to Other Sites
University Affairs
The University Affairs magazine takes you inside Canada's universities with the latest news, people on the move, book reviews, provocative opinion, research highlights and in-depth articles on a wide range of topics of interest to faculty, administrators and graduate students.

The Virtual Gramophone
An extensive multimedia database that covers the history of recorded music in Canada. Search the site for musician biographies and notes about the early years of sound recording, online audio clips of recordings, podcasts on specific themes, videos, and more. From Library and Archives Canada.

The Institute for Canadian Music
Features full text articles about music education and noteworthy people and events in Canadian music. Also offers an extensive collection of music links. From the University of Toronto.

Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation
CAML is dedicated to the collection, preservation and study of music, particularly music in Canada. Check out the "CAML Review" for many full text reviews of books and recordings from the Canadian music scene.