We’re very happy to be working with the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) in order to hold a special webinar for World Intellectual Property Day.

The webinar will focus on the role of libraries in a healthy music ecosystem, and how intellectual property laws can facilitate this positive contribution, and will take place on 25 April from 12:30pm – 2pm UTC (see what time this is for you).

We’ll be discussing everything from support for creation, research and preservation, underlining how libraries can not only provide access, but also be a driver of new creation.

Learn about:

  • The role and different activities of music libraries
  • The impact of copyright and other intellectual property rights on the activities of music libraries and librarians
  • Ways in which this role could be better supported

We’ll be join by the following speakers:

Carla Williams, Ohio University Libraries, United States

Kathleen DeLaurenti, Arthur Friedheim Library, United States

Enrique Monfort Sanchez, Palau de la Música de València, Spain

Niels Mark, Odense City Library Denmark

Speaker biographies

Carla Williams is the music librarian at Ohio University-Athens where she directs the operations of the Music and Dance Library. Among various service responsibilities, she is currently the chair of the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions section for IAML. She has multiple music and library science degrees from Indiana University-Bloomington and the University of Idaho.

Kathleen DeLaurenti is the Director of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University’s Arthur Friedheim Music Library. She previously served arts librarian, open education coordinator, and scholarly communication librarian at the College of William & Mary. Her research focuses on copyright and publishing in music. At Peabody, she leads policy development around intellectual property and staffs the campus copyright education service. She has been active in copyright and legislation work in the Music Library Association and the American Library Association and is the 2015 winner of the ALA Robert Oakley Memorial Scholarship for copyright research. She holds an MLIS from the University of Washington and a BFA in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University.

Enrique Monfort (Valencia, 1975) has a degree in Art History from the University of Valencia and a degree in Music History and Sciences from the University of La Rioja. He also has a Master’s Degree in Cultural Management from UOC-UDG and now is enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the Polytechnical University of Valencia, with an investigation into the management of music documentation at theaters and auditoriums.  Since 2006 he has been an archivist-documentalist at the OAM Palau de la Música, Congressos i Orquestra de València.  He combines his work with that of a music critic specializing in jazz and popular music in various media such as Cuadernos de Jazz, Levante-EMV, or Más Jazz.  He has given refresher courses to music library professionals for entities such as AEDOM or the Unión Musical de Lliria, which he has advised on these matters.  In 2017 he held the secretariat of the Spanish Association of Musical Documentation, which has held again in 2022 until 2025.  Likewise, he has published the monograph “Music in the Huguet Archive” (Valencia, Institut Valencià de la Música, 2006).  Since 2017 he is the coordinator and programmer of the cycle “Jazz a poqueta nit” at the Palau de la Música de València and since 2018 he coordinates and programs the Valencia Jazz Festival.

Niels Mark holds a Master’s degree in Professional Communication from Roskilde University. He serves as the Chair of the Public Libraries Section at IAML and is an active member of the IAML Advocacy Committee. He works as a Consultant specializing in Music and Cross-Disciplinary Event Management at the Libraries of Odense, Denmark. Additionally, Niels Mark is the Chief Editor of Denmark’s national digital music library platform, Bibzoom.