The committee’s aims include:

1. creating and maintaining a repository of documentation that supports the role played by the organisations for which it speaks in their promotion of the importance of music in our shared cultural heritage
2. encouraging and promoting the creation and publication of such documentation by influential organisations and individuals from a wide range of professional contexts, including members of IAML and those who use their collections
3. disseminating relevant documentation within IAML and its membership, and to those academic, governmental or other bodies capable of influencing the continued viability of music libraries, archives and documentation centres
4. offering support and assistance to those institutions whose music collections and music library services are at risk. In such instances the committee will undertake the responsibility to respond with due alacrity

The committee will report its activities to the Board before each Board meeting and will ensure that IAML members are regularly informed and consulted as appropriate.