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The IAML Board has recommended that Anders Cato be appointed as the next Secretar y General of the Association. The General Assembly will vote on this recommendation at the 2018 Leipzig congress. The new Secretary General will take over from the present incumbent, Pia Shekhter, at the close of that congress.

Anders Cato graduated as a music librarian in 1987 and worked in that role until May 2000. Since then, he has held several posts, first in Brussels as Press Officer for the European Union (EU), then as Head of the National Bibliography at the National Library of Sweden for five years. Following this, another five years as Head of Cataloguing. For the last three years, he has been working at the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces, which governs most of Denmark’s cultural life, including libraries. Anders has been an active member of IAML since the early 1990s. He was Chair of the Cataloguing Commission (1999–2002), and Secretary of the same Commission (2011–2017). He has also held important positions in IFLA, including Chair of the Standing Committee of the Bibliography Section and of the Cataloguing Section.

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Gabriele Gamba has resigned his position as IAML’s Webmaster after serving more than a decade in this role. In order to further the work necessary for maintaining the vibrancy of IAML’s Web site, and at the same time not to overburden Web Editor, Jennifer Ward, the IAML Board has approved temporary appointments for Richard Ranft (British Library) as Webmaster and Michelle Hahn (William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University) as Assistant Web Editor, with a view to seeking approval from the General Assembly at the Congress in Leipzig to make these appointments permanent.

Richard Ranft is currently the Head of Sound & Vision at the British Library, a position he has held since 2010. He previously worked at the British Library in other roles since 1983. He has been the IASA Webmaster, which uses the same platform as the IAML Web site, where he led them through many updates and changes to their Web site.

Michell Hahn is currently working as Assistant Librarian, Sound Recordings Cataloger, at Indiana University in Technical Services at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. She has been in this role since 2015, and worked previously as Music Cataloging Librarian at Southern Methodist University. She is involved in the Music Library Association and the Music OCLC Users Group, where she has been active in social media for both Associations.

The IAML Board would like to give hearty thanks to Gabriele Gamba for his long and devoted service, and welcome Richard Ranft and Michelle Hahn to the Web team.

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The University at Buf falo has received a CLIR grant through its Recordings at Risk program, a national re-granting program to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value. The grant, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will support a project to reformat 173 reelt*o-reel tapes containing ca. 627 musical works presented on recitals by the University at Buffalo’s Creative Associates from 1964 to 1980. The Associates were members of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, established by Lukas Foss and Allen Sapp in 1964. These recitals were the concerts the Associates programmed themselves as supplements to the Center-scheduled concerts. As such, they represent the musical interests of the Associates ranging from early music to contemporaneous music. Many performances of contemporary works were either performed by their respective composers or under their direction. Close to twenty premieres are included. The roster of performers and composers is exceptional. It represents a high number of luminaries of contemporary music of the period, including George Crumb, Luciano Berio, Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Sylvano Bussotti, Giacinto Scelsi, Morton Feldman, and John Cage, as well as lesser-known figures whose representation here may be even more unique.

John Bewley
University at Buffalo

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The International Trombone Association (ITA) Archives and the Glenn D. Bridges Archives have come together at Columbus State University, allowing for the Bridges Collection to be...