ABSTRACT
From the inception of International Association of Music Libraries (IAML), UK members have been deeply involved with its international work. Their participation and commitment have dispelled any image of professional insularity. Internationally there had been a conscious awareness of the need for international outreach well before the end of the 1980s. It was then, however, perhaps more than any time before, that ‘outreach’ emerged as a proactive international concept, a reaction to the collapse of European communism and a desire to establish direct contact with those newly able to operate within the democratic structure of the ‘New Europe’. IAML(UK) had already followed the international lead and had begun offering its journal, Brio, as a complimentary gesture of interest and support. Lest foundations become mere mysteries of future professional archaeology, it is essential that the philosophies of internationalism continue to be realized.
