CECILIA is a searchable online database across many different types of institution. The project harvests information about the collections of music materials they contain, and makes it available through one portal.

Cecilia is intended to be an overall map of this musical landscape, revealing where musical resources are to be found and helping to put people in direct contact with the institutions that hold them. The archives, libraries and museums of this country are rich treasure houses - the memory of a nation.

Many have significant collections of music-related materials which together make up the national music resource. Some are totally dedicated to music, many more include music as part of a general collection. Printed and manuscript music, instruments, personal papers and diaries, company records, books, recordings in many different formats, portraits, concert programmes, multi-media and electronic sources of information are just some of the types of material held in public and academic libraries, archives and record offices, museums and galleries all over the UK and Ireland.

The Cecilia Project website: [http://www.cecilia-uk.org/]

Cecilia is supported with funding from: The British Library Cooperation and Partnership Programme; Resource: The Council for Museums Archives and Libraries; Research Support Libraries Programme; Music Libraries Trust.

Cecilia is administered by The United Kingdom & Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML (UK & Irl)).

AHDS Performing Arts is part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). Copyright 2003-7.
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