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Finland 
Music Library Directory
A model of national music library directory with links to individual music libraries.
www.kaapeli.fi/~musakir/engdir

Helsinki http://www.lib.hel.fi/musko

Inter-library lending service
For all materials, including printed music, recorded music and other non-print materials. This site provides access to the catalogues of libraries in the public library network, with a facility to search all the catalogues. 
http://www.publiclibraries.fi/

Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive
Preserves Finnish popular music. The JAPA is taking part in digital conversion projects, funded by the Ministry of Education, which are converting old open reel tapes and C-cassettes at risk of destruction to digital format. The JAPA is also releasing its own series of CDs containing historically significant Finnish jazz recordings. CDs can be purchased at the JAPA office. http://www.jazzpoparkisto.net/

France
AIBM
A site complied by music librarians with good links to libraries, bibliographies, musical iconography, etc.
www.aibm-france.org

Guidelines
French law provides firm guidelines on what is centrally organised by government and what is expected of local authorities 
http://www.enssib.fr/autres-sites/csb/csb-charter.html

Mediatheque
A model multimedia site and gateway to resources which includes recordings, videos, musical analysis and audio excerpts.
http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/index-e.html

Paris the Cité de la Musique
http://www.cite-musique.fr/

Germany
AG Stuttgarter Musikbibliotheken
Common service and information platform of the music libraries in Stuttgart/Germany
http://agmb.iuk.hdm-stuttgart.de/

Greece
Lilian Voudouri (Music Library of Greece)
The first and very comprehensive music library in Greece. A research library and primary source for music materials, serving a wide range of professionals, academics, teachers and students.
http://www.mmb.org.gr/

Lithuania
Classicalmusic
This guide to music services in Lithuania provides a different model with much commercial content, but is packed with solid information and provides links to libraries. 
http://www.classicalmusic.lt/

Netherlands
Accessible Music
This website aims to provide a central resource for information about music in alternative formats and is run by FNB (the Dutch Libraries for the Print Impaired).
http://projects.fnb.nl/am/home.html

Centrale Discotheek, Rotterdam
The Dutch central service for inter-library lending of sound recordings at the in Rotterdam. The lending service is widely used by other public libraries in the Netherlands. There is an electronic form.
http://www.muziekweb.nl/

Musica
Wide-ranging guide to music in the Netherlands, originally conceived by the music information centre: model for a music subject gateway, includes good links to music libraries of all kinds. http://www.musica.nl/html/default.php

Portugal 
Lisbon the Fonoteca 
The only institution of its kind in Portugal, the fonoteca in Lisbon provides a gateway to many other music services in Portugal. http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/fonoteca/

Spain
Radio Nacional de España
The Spanish National Radio has digitised its audio contents. In all, 190.000 hours of audio recordings have been moved to digital format (popular music, classical music, plays, radio serials, voice recordings and news casts). In the future, agreements will be signed with educational and cultural bodies to make this archive available to researchers and also to individuals who would make use of it for non profitable means.
http://www.rne.es

Valladolid State Public Library
Here you can visit virtual e-exhibitions
http://bpval.bcl.jcyl.es/SalaExpo.html

Sweden
Swedish Music Library 
http://www.muslib.se/

United Kingdom 
Birmingham 
The Music Library’s mission statement includes services for ethnic communities and 
individual libraries document their holdings and use knowledgeable local people from the 
communities to assist in selection.
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/epislive/libpages/nsf/Docids/
9098BB9264465CD08025663D00424584?OpenDocument

The British Library's Remote Copy Services
Sound Recordings Transcription Service
http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/sound.html

Cecilia
New British project to provide an online directory of British music library resources and other music resources, with appropriate links to individual libraries and organisations. http://www.cecilia-uk.org/

Library and Information Plan for Music in the United Kingdom and Ireland, IAML (UK). 
Since publication of the plan in 1993 and the case it made for improvements in cooperation, a number of projects to secure improvements have been recognised and have gained funding.

The Performing Arts Data Service, a
Centred on institutions in higher education, offers a gateway for digital collections of film, television and broadcast resources, music, theatre and dance. It could be extended to include more public library and local archive material. http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/

Royal National Institute for the Blind
Has a website which outlines services for those with visual impairments, which includes information and advice, training issues, services for the provision Braille music and music-related materials and information.
http://www.rnib.org.uk/

Westminster City Council Music Library
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/special/music/index.cfm

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