The prize of £300 is awarded for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship by a student or group of students of Library and Information Science, or to a librarian in their first five years of music librarianship.  The deadline for submissions is Monday 11 January 2016.

£450 (matched by £450 from IAML (UK & Irl)) has been awarded to a project to improve and update the data contained in Encore!, the online union catalogue of sets of performance music in UK Libraries.

£3000 has been awarded to Rupert Ridgewell, Susi Woodhouse and Orangeleaf Systems Ltd for a project to redevelop the Cecilia and Concert Programmes databases. 

Following on from her Bryant Prize-winning dissertation on the topic of Dating Music Scores, £750 was awarded to Catherine Small to fund the expansion of her research prior to its publication in Brio in 2014.

Researcher David Beveridge is working on a bibliographic research project on Dvorák's relations with the UK, with funding from the MLT.

Librarian and researcher Catherine Ferris completed the first phase of a project to make the research of Brian Boydell and Barra Boydell into the Dublin Music Trade to 1900 available in a free-to-access online searchable database.

A team of researchers was appointed by MLT to work together on a scoping study aimed at identifying and cataloguing collections of musicians’ letters held in the UK, focusing on material from c. 1900 to the present day. 

In 2010 the RILM Ireland committee was awarded a grant of £1000 to eliminate the backlog in the RILM database of books and theses from Ireland.