RILM will participate in the conference Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Honor of Stephanie Merakos, organized by the IMS Study Group Music and Cultural Studies and The Friends of Music Society Athens. The event will be held in Athens, Greece, 20–21 February 2025.

On Thursday, 20 February, at 11:00am local time, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will give his paper “Francesco Bianchini’s designs of angels: Musicians for the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano”. Later that day, at 5:30pm local time, Zdravko will chair Stephanie Merakos’s keynote address. RILM is profoundly grateful for all the work that Merakos has done as chair of the Greek committee for the past 25 years.

Please feel free to stop Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. And for details, including the conference schedule and program, please visit the “L.Voudouri” Music Library of Greece website.

RILM will participate in this year’s NISO Plus conference held in Baltimore, Maryland, 10–13 February 2025.

On Wednesday, 12 January, 10:45am–12:00pm EST, Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the panel Metadata, Preservation, and Digital Futures Across Cultural Heritage in Room Laurel AB. Tina will be joined by fellow discussants Kimberly Graham, Michael Stewart, and Benjamin Kynsak to address topics surrounding how metadata can better serve as an important layer for digital safeguarding and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Please feel free to stop Tina and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. Head to the event details page on the conference schedule to learn more.

RILM Music Encyclopedias has just added three new titles into its continuously expanding collection of historical and current reference texts:

• Sokol Shupol, ed. Biographical dictionary of Balkan composers (Tirana: Asmus, 2005) 704 p. In English.
• Ilan Stavans, ed. Latin music: Musicians, genres, and themes (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2014) 2 vols., xix, xiv, 923 p. In English.
• David Damschroder and David Russell Williams. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A bibliography and guide (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1990) xliii, 522 p. In English.

The 2025 additions showcase the broad, international scope that is a hallmark of RILM Music Encyclopedias’ subject-specific, full-text coverage. The Biographical dictionary of Balkan composers shines a much needed light on often underrepresented musicians from the region, while Latin music offers insight into the histories, movements, and transformations of the music of Latin America. Both reveal important elements of their respective subjects’ cultural heritage. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker explores the changing assumptions and musical practices that have guided Western art music theories across over 500 years.  

RILM Music Encyclopedias can be accessed via EBSCOhost and on RILM’s platform Egret at rme.rilm.org.

For further information, please email encyclopedias@rilm.org