Welcome
The Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) was established in 1966 under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society and International Association of Music Libraries. It is a continually updated bibliography of writings on music - including books, journal articles, congress reports and dissertations - based at the RILM International Center in New York. The fully searchable database currently has over 500,000 records from 151 countries, and each record includes full publication details and an abstract. It is available online (through content providers) and updated monthly.
The collection and submission of details of UK publications to RILM International has been funded by two AHRC grants (Royal Holloway, 1999-2004; Nottingham, 2005-8). In May 2008, the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham secured an annual grant from the Institute of Musical Research to ensure that coverage of UK research will be maintained for the foreseeable future.
Vassilis Vavoulis was appointed as RILM-UK Co-ordinator in 2005, and he continues to work with members of the RILM-UK committee: Richard Chesser (Chair; British Library), Chris Banks (University of Aberdeen Library) and Sarah Hibberd (University of Nottingham).
The RILM-UK Coordinator actively collects information on new publications, but he also welcomes individual submissions from authors. (Details about submissions can be found on the Authors & Contributors page.)
