Grace Toland
Grace Toland has been working as Librarian in the Irish Traditional Music Archive since 2007. As a practising traditional singer, this position is a happy marriage of work and her passion for the traditional arts. Her role in ITMA is to monitor and advise on the full range of information processes, from accession to storage, description to user access, that are associated with a multimedia archive. With this remit comes active involvement in multimedia digitisation, metadata standards and web publishing. Grace has been a key player in bringing to fruition The Inishowen Song Project, a new contextual microsite dedicated to Donegal singers and songs. With a great belief in accessibility and information sharing, Grace liaises with Europeana and other agencies to develop networks and platforms to share Irish traditional music with the widest audience possible.
