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After studying musicology at Utrecht University JOOST VAN GEMERT worked in several branches of Dutch musical life and was one of the founders in 1985 of “Muziek Catalogus Nederland” (an automated music cataloging network of Dutch music libraries). At present he is Subject Librarian—for Musicology, Theater, Film and Television Studies, and Communication and Information Studies—of the Library of the Faculty of Arts at Utrecht University. As such, he developed a major digitization project of sources on Dutch organ history; out of which grew an international digitization project funded by the European Community, with participating institutions in five European countries, led by Utrecht University.
Van Gemert has served as President of the Dutch IAML Branch (1987-1991); Secretary (1986-1991), Vice-President (1991-1997) and President (1997-2001) of the Royal Society for Netherlandish Musical History (KVNM); and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Orgeldokumentation (IAOD, Berlin, Germany; 1989-1999). At present he is a member of the Board of the Stichting Toonkunst-Bibliotheek (Toonkunst Library Foundation, Amsterdam), Secretary and Treasurer of the Stichting Utrechts Orgelarchief Maarten Albert Vente (The Maarten Albert Vente Utrecht Organ Archives Foundation) and Vice-President of the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Orgeldokumentation (Berlin, Germany). He has published some twenty-five articles, mainly about Renaissance polyphony, Gregorian and Ambrosian chant, source materials in Dutch libraries, and other library and cataloging subjects. He also contributed a number of articles on Dutch music personalities to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001) and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd edition (1994).