Cambridge University Library Music Collections at the University of Cambridge Anna Pensaert (Head of Music Collections) & Clemens Gresser (Deputy Head)

Pendlebury Library of Music Pendlebury Library has 60,000 items Especially strong on: - Core books for UG courses - 6,500+ CDs (strong on opera & orchestral music) DVDs (strong on opera) - Very strong microfilm and facsimile collection Practical hint - Unbound printed music (e.g. music in parts) can be borrowed  - Provides audio & scanning facilities  Microfilm reader with scanner

University Library (UL) Open to all members of the University and to private researchers Legal deposit collection Around 8 million items!

UL: Music Dept. & Anderson Room Music UL has 650,000 printed music items Especially strong on: -British printed music & academic books -Collected, critical editions (a lot are accessible in Anderson Room -Baroque, C20 and C21 music Practical hint - Unbound printed music cannot be borrowed  - Some music journals are accessible via the West Room Reading Room

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Finding your way around Milstein Room

Tours for some of you now, more info... Can we please ask 2x20 folks to go with Anna and Justin for a tour (30 minutes): Group 1 & Group 2 Everyone else will get about 20 more minutes of information on catalogues, searching, etc.; everyone else will then get a tour, and Group 1 & 2 will come back here for more info please.

Layout of Music open shelves

Catalogues LibrarySearch - Holdings of UL, Pendlebury Library and many other libraries:

Newton Catalogues Newton Catalogues: - Good for searches limited to UL, Pendlebury (O-Z), or your College

The card catalogues - ca. 250,000 printed music Items - catalogued before 1989 Music Catalogue (left) academic Materials Supplementary Catalogue (right) -“secondary” music, but contains also composers as -mostly “primary”, Jacques Offenbach

Finding things in Card Catalogues - cards are arranged alphabetically by composer - anonymous works will be listed by title - If few works by a particular composer they just arranged alphabetically by title - If loads of works -> sub-divisions by medium

Example of composer with sub-divisions

More… Finding Printed Music – session Finding Printed Music Thu 24 October :30-16:30 IT Training Rm, Cambridge University Library

How to interpret a catalogue record?

Interpreting Cataloguing records

Newton Search, Departments and Faculties O-Z

Size matters We classmark open shelf material according to size to save space: a (very big) b (big) c (standard) d (small)

Classmarks a, b, c… d Uniform title:War requiem. Vocal score Author(s):Britten, Benjamin, Other entries:Owen, Wilfred, Published:London : Boosey & Hawkes, c1962. Physical description:1 vocal score ([vi], 179p) ; 31cm. UL: Anderson RoomM210.a.95.5 UL: Order in Anderson Room (Not borrowable) MRS

Size matters We classmark open shelf material according to size to save space: a (very big) b (big) c (standard) d (small)

Layout of Music open shelves

Size matters Items in each area are grouped in blocks according to their ‘size letter’: a (very big), b (big), c (standard), or d (small) - So M270-M834.a precedes M270- M834.b, which is followed by M270- M834.c, and M270-M834.d comes at the end

Layout of Music open shelves

Mind the gap The catalogue showed ‘Available’ but the book is not on the shelf! It might be: In process of being reshelved Being read, or reserved, in any of 900 seats in 7 reading rooms, 24 open floors, 2 photocopying rooms

Ordering closed-stack items Closed stacks items have to be ordered “Order in Anderson Room” Fetching time can take mins – often less Use order slips in Anderson Room Only some closed access items are borrowable:

Ordering closed-stack items Books fetched to the West Room must be read there - books fetched to the Reading Room may be borrowed!

Borrowing Open-shelf material (including bound periodicals) and items fetched to the Reading Room may be borrowed. UG students can borrow 5 books for 2 weeks You can renew them once on the library catalogue, but... If another reader recalls a book you have, you must return it within a week You can return them by post - Recorded Delivery recommended

Photocopying & scanning Photocopying room

Photocopying & scanning Photocopying room A4 = 10p A3 = 20p Scanning = 8p Needs DRA account in use with your university card

Online academic sources

Facilities IT and web Public PCs in West Room, Commonwealth Room (DRA password) Wifi in reading rooms and Tea Room (Raven password) Photocopying/photographing material Self-service copying/scanning requires DRA account and credit Imaging Services can offer advice and staffed service Self-service photography: register in the Reading Room Tea Room (and courtyards) Meals, snacks, hot and cold drinks Bring your own food if you like!

Regulations

Opening hours UL building: Mondays to Fridays (No Admittance after 19.00) in Easter Full TermEaster Full Term Saturdays (No Admittance after 16.45) Sundays Closed Anderson Room: Monday - Thursday staffed 09:30-17:10 Friday staffed 09:30-16:55 Saturday staffed 9:30-12:45 No fetching between 12:30 and and after (after 16:45 on Fridays & after 12:30 on Saturdays). No fetching - Saturday afternoons.

Any questions? UL Main Music Anderson Room: Pendlebury Library of Music:

Research Skills Programme