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Newsletter September 2008 ISSN 1022-8667 18 International ISMN Agency Internationale ISMN-Agentur e.V. SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL ISMN PANEL MEETING YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA 16 JUNE – 18 JUNE 2008 PARTICIPANTS Tieke Atikah, National Library of Australia, Regional Office Asia Nazeerah Gopaul, National Library of Sin- gapore, ISMN Agency Berit Holth, National Library of Norway, Norwegian ISMN Agency Dady P. Rachmananta, National Library of Indonesia, Director Dr. Sauliah Saleh, National Library of Indo- nesia, Indonesian ISMN Agency Gamelan orchestra at the palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta Dr. Bettina von Seyfried, Deutsche Natio- nalbibliothek, Deutsches Musikarchiv Ber- Progress Reports of the National / Report of the Chairman and Wel- lin (DMA) Local ISMN Agencies come Speech of the Director of the Dalia Smoriginien‹, Martynas MaÔvydas, National Library of Indonesia National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian Revision of the ISMN Standard ISMN Agency and the ISMN Users’ Manual Launching of the Seminar by the Carolin Unger, Internationale ISMN-Agen- National Bibliographies representative of the Governor of tur e.V Trade Directories Yogyakarta, Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X. Dr. Hartmut Walravens, Chairman, Inter- Archiving Material in Electronic nationale ISMN-Agentur e.V. Formats Dr. Hartmut Walravens: Presen- tation on the ISMN and its advan- Guests: Music Information Centres tages Ms. B. Rohingah, National Library of Indo- IAML nesia, Legal Deposit Department Dr. Bettina von Seyfried: Why ISMN and ISBN Relations Mr. Haji Talib bin Haji Kassim, Ministry of ISMN? Next ISMN Annual General Culture, Brunei Darussalam Prof. Dr. Triyono Bramantyo: The Meeting Indonesian Case General Questions Utiek Ruktiningsih: The recording AGENDAS OF THE MEETINGS Miscellaneous company Lokananta Indrato Budi Satryo: Product pira- 17 JUNE: INTERNATIONAL 16/18 JUNE: ANNUAL GENERAL cy in Indonesia and how to fight it SEMINAR OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING AND PANEL MEETING Discussion on the papers, moderat- ISMN AGENCY ON THE BENEFITS ed by Mr. Ida Fajar Priyanto. Opening OF THE USE OF ISMN FOR PUB- Second Ordinary General Assem- LISHERS, LIBRARIES AND TRADE bly of the “Internationale ISMN- ISMN ON TOUR – PERSONAL IM- Agentur e.V.” Opening PRESSIONS (B. von Seyfried) OPENING OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY The Chairman declared the Annual General Meeting open. The members had been invited according to the Sta- tutes. The director of the Czech Re- public ISMN agency had passed his vote on to Hartmut Walravens because he was not able to participate himself. The Chairman considered it a pity that not more representatives from ISMN agencies had the opportunity to attend, but the ISMN community thought it would be important to make an outreach, so that more Asian coun- tries at least had the opportunity to participate, too. Hartmut Walravens and Dady P. Rachmananta at the opening of the Annual General Meeting ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OPENING IN OSLO, 2007 to Hartmut Walravens, so that there After very kind welcoming words of were actually 8 votes. Dady P. Rachmananta, Director of the Two observers attended the meeting The minutes had been circulated be- National Library of Indonesia, the as guests, Mr. Hj. Talib bin Hj. Kassim forehand. No comments were raised. Chairman of the International ISMN from the public library system in So the minutes were adopted. Agency, Hartmut Walravens, thanked Brunei Darussalam and Ms. Hj. B. the National Library for arranging the Rohingah from the Legal Deposit De- very well organized meeting. He ex- partment of the National Library of In- pressed his confidence that even donesia. REPORT OF THE BOARD though the number of participants was fairly small, this would nevertheless There are now 47 members. Belgium, create a good atmosphere for fruitful Kazakhstan and Singapore joined in discussions. AGENDA 2007. Luxembourg is just establishing Opening of the Chairman of the an agency and will then become the General Assembly 48th member. Negotiations with other countries include Colombia, South Adoption of the Minutes of the SECOND ORDINARY GENER- Africa, and USA. The Library of Con- Annual General Meeting in gress would be our partner in the US, AL ASSEMBLY OF THE “INTERNA- Oslo, 2007 TIONALE ISMN-AGENTUR E.V.” but they are currently busy with a ma- Report of the Board jor digitisation project so that it might Chairperson of the General Assembly: Report of the Treasurer last another year until we will have a re- Dr. Hartmut Walravens Adoption of the Budget sult there. But as the United States is an Rapporteur: Carolin Unger Reading of the Report of the important music country, we are eager 9.30 - 11.15 h Cash Auditors to welcome them as member. The last AGM (Annual General Exoneration of the Board Participants: Tieke Atikah (Australia), Nazee- Meeting) took place in Oslo in 2007, rah Gopaul (Singapore), Berit Holth (Nor- Resolution on Appointment of kindly hosted by the National Library way), Dady P. Rachmananta (Indonesia), an External Auditor for the Dr. Sauliah Saleh (Indonesia), Dr. Bettina von of Norway. There, the membership Annual Statement of Accounts Seyfried (Treasurer of the Board, Germany), contributions were a major topic. The Dalia Smoriginien‹ (Lithuania), Carolin Unger Resolution on Membership main goal was to decide on a quota sys- (Manager, Internationale ISMN-Agentur, Ger- Fees for 2009 tem based on objective criteria. The many), Dr. Hartmut Walravens (Chairman of the Board, Germany) Miscellaneous proposal was to use the GNI in combi- nation with the overall number of edi- 7 members of the association entitled The assembly was able to make de- tions of published notations in a given to vote attended the assembly. The cisions as according to the statutes sim- country as basis for the annual mem- Czech Republic had transferred its vote ple majority was sufficient. bership fee. There was very little criti- 2 | ISMN Newsletter 18 (2008) cism regarding the proposal. So it was tool for the music market. But the pub- accepted. lication took a lot of time and effort, so The revision of the ISO Standard on when the International ISMN Agency ISMN was, again, a major topic during became independent, we noticed that the last 12 months. The Draft Interna- we could not do it on our own. There tional Standard was up for final vote was an interim CD-ROM prepared by and was approved in May 2008. ourselves in 2006. But the question re- The Internationale ISMN-Agentur mained, what to do in the future, as we e.V. had to move from the Staatsbiblio- are required by ISO to publish the pre- thek zu Berlin to office space of its own fixes and publisher contact data. We in April 2007. received these data from the ISMN As of July 2007, there was a change agencies. The easiest way to publish of staff at the Internationale ISMN- them would be on our website. Some Agentur e.V., as Dr. Ulrich Wegner be- of our members, part of commercial came a full-time lecturer at the Univer- firms and providers, as e.g. Germany, sity of Hildesheim and Carolin Unger criticized this plan. In the absence of stepped in who had worked for ISMN other realistic options it was decided to in 1996, then had for a long time been explore the possibilities to publish the with the International ISBN Agency. data on the international website. The Music Publishers’ International An English version of our Associa- Bettina von Seyfried, Treasurer of the ISMN Directory will not be continued tion’s Statutes was circulated. Because Internationale ISMN-Agentur e.V. in the previous form, but will be pub- the legal systems were different in all lished in a down-sized form on the our member countries it was difficult to transition phase. He was not only busy Internet. In earlier years the Directory prepare an appropriate English lan- to find an office but as well to furnish was a book publication. Until its first guage version. So this one might not be and to equip it. Therefore, we had publication people sometimes did not 100 % reliable, but it is expected to be quite an amount of extra costs in furni- even know how many music publishers good enough (99%!) for all practical ture and technical equipment as you existed. E.g. music publishers associa- purposes. can see in our handout. tions knew only their members but not The board of our association con- We had to spend all that money, other music publishers in their coun- sists of Dr. Hartmut Walravens as since until that date we had been lucky tries. So this book proved a very good chairman, Dr. Joachim Jaenecke (musi- to be part of the big institution Staats- cologist at the State Library Berlin) as bibliothek zu Berlin that provided all Poster at the entrance of the conference room deputy chairman, Dr. Bettina von Sey- necessities to make us do our work. fried (Deutsches Musik-Archiv) as Now we are somehow self-employed. treasurer. Through the phase of establishing our new status we had to wait until late 2006 to get permission to use the mon- ey on the ISMN account, that was part REPORT OF THE TREASURER of the overall account of Staatsbiblio- thek zu Berlin. The administration Since we only received the money of forced us – somehow – to wait until we the ISMN account in the last few days were officially the new-born and estab- of December 2006, there was not much lished Internationale ISMN-Agentur to inform at our last meeting in Oslo in e.V. to send our money on to our new that respect. For the year 2007 things account. Well – financially we had a have changed and we now have far solid sum on the account and could more to report to the assembly.