US-RILM Office
Lincoln Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4101
Telephone: (607)255-7126
Fax: (607)254-2877
e-mail: USRILM@cornell.edu
The US-RILM Office was established in 1984 as the agency to gather and edit abstracts for scholarly music writings published in the United States. The office is supported by subventions from the major American scholarly music organizations: the American Musicological Society, the Music Library Association, the US Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, the Society for Music Theory, the Sonneck Society, the Hymn Society, the College Music Society, and the Society for Ethnomusicology.
The Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale publishes an ongoing database of musicological bibliography, in printed and CD-ROM formats. The database is commonly referred to as RILM Abstracts of Music Literature or RILM. The Editor-in-Chief is Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie. This international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines, in many languages, is classified by topic, and includes original-language titles; title translations in English; full bibliographic information; abstracts in English; author, journal, and subject indexes; and a thesaurus.
Sponsorship. RILM was established in 1966 under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centers.
Participation. The publication of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is made possible by the efforts of approximately 50 national committees located in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America.
Scope. RILM's broad, international coverage and concise abstracts distinguish it from all other music reference resources. All scholarly works are included (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, conference proceedings, reviews, etc.).
Access. RILM is available in book form from the RILM International Center, City University of New York Graduate School and Research Center, 33 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036, and on CD-ROM from NISC, 3100 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21218, Each printed volume contains one year of music scholarship; the CD-ROM is updated annually.
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URL: http://www.cornell.library.edu/music/rilm.html
Last updated 27 September 1996