Music Library

The Music Library is a departmental library that primarily houses recordings and scores. Most books about music are in the Owen D. Young Library.

If you wish to request a recording, score, or other item from the Music Library, a request form will be available here shortly.

Location

The Music Library located inside the Arts Annex theme house for the performing arts at 21 Romoda Drive.  Anyone who would like to visit the library may set up an appointment by contacting student librarians Alexandra Dent and Nick Tiedemann.

Mission

Our mission is to support the educational, research, and performance needs of the Music Department as well as the liberal arts curriculum of the entire college community.

Collection

The collection of the Music Library consists primarily of sound recordings, video recordings, scores for study and performance, and collected works of select major composers. We have approximately 3,000 sound recordings, 600 video recordings of music and dance, 2,800 scores, and 150 books. The Music Library also contains a small reference area as well as a space for course reserves. Books and periodicals about music, musicians, composers, reference sources, and indexes are housed in the Owen D. Young Library; the video collection there also contains some films about music.

Circulation Policy

Music scores circulate for one semester to faculty/staff and six weeks to students. CD, DVDs, and videocassettes circulate for three days to students and seven days to faculty and staff. LPs, as well as materials in the reference area and items on the course reserve shelves, are designated for library use only. Collected works (the scores with M2 and M3 classification) only circulate to music faculty.

Equipment

The music library has equipment for the playback of LPs, audio cassettes, videocassettes, CDs, DVDs, and BluRays, as well as an overhead projector, a digital piano, and a printer. There are two Macintosh workstations available for general patron use.