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Posted on 6 September 2017
Surrey County Council are consulting on the future of the very large and locally as well as nationally significant Surrey Performing Arts Library,...
Posted on 14 February 2017
We're delighted to announce that Nottingham Performing Arts Library Service (NPALS)'s re-vamped, online sheet music hire service has bagged...
Posted on 23 December 2016
One of the jobs that you as members of Making Music entrust us with is to speak on your behalf to those that shape the environment in which you...
Posted on 21 October 2016
Everyone’s heart sank when, for the second time in five years, the great collection of music scores known as the Yorkshire Music Library (...
Posted on 26 May 2016
Yorkshire Music Library’s new home; Norfolk Music Sets Service one year reprieve; Nottingham powering on; and what’s happening in West...
Posted on 11 April 2016
After the creation of the Yorkshire Music Library (under social enterprise Fresh Horizons) in 2012, the vast collection of over 300,000 musical...
Posted on 24 March 2016
Local authorities are implementing cuts of unprecendented scale for the financial years 2016/7 and music libraries continue to be targets, most...
Posted on 1 March 2016
Last year, many members wrote to Birmingham City Council when, as part of their budget consultations, they proposed closing down the music library...
Posted on 15 December 2015
After a year of research, consultations, focus groups and much hard work from the teams in Nottingham and Leicester, the pioneering new Nottingham...
Posted on 10 July 2015
Somerset PAL is located on the top floor of Yeovil Library, and offers a large space with one of the biggest specialist collections in the region....
Posted on 12 June 2015
I visited two of them recently, and what different stories they had – but both worth you taking note of as they can be useful for your group,...
Posted on 25 February 2015
Somerset (Yeovil Performing Arts Library) The consultation has closed and there is a county council cabinet meeting on Monday 2 March at 10am in...