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

Pendlebury Library of Music Practical hint - Unbound printed music (e.g.music in parts) can be borrowed - Provides audio & scanning facilities Microfilm reader with scanner Pendlebury Library has 60,000 items Especially strong on: - Core books for UG courses - 6,500+ CDs (strong on opera & orchestral) - 350+ DVDs (strong on opera) - Very strong microfilm and facsimile collection 2

University Library (UL) Open to all members of the University and to private researchers Legal deposit collection Around 8 million items! 3

UL: Music Dept. & Anderson Room Music Dept. @ 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 4

Find us all at www.cam.ac.uk/libraries 5

Finding your way around yes Milstein Room 6

Layout of Music open shelves

Catalogues LibrarySearch - http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk/ Holdings of UL, Pendlebury Library and many other libraries:

Newton Catalogues Newton Catalogues: Good for searches limited to UL, http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/ 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 Thu 24 October 2013 15:30-16:30 IT Training Rm, Cambridge University Library

How to interpret a catalogue record? 15

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) 18

Classmarks a, b, c… d Uniform title: War requiem. Vocal score Author(s): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Other entries: Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918. Published: London : Boosey & Hawkes, c1962. Physical description: 1 vocal score ([vi], 179p) ; 31cm. UL: Anderson Room M210.a.95.5 UL: Order in Anderson Room (Not borrowable) MRS.8.2834 Music example 19

Size matters We classmark open shelf material according to size to save space: a (very big) b (big) c (standard) d (small) This is a repeat? 20

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

In process of being reshelved 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 yes 24

Ordering closed-stack items Closed stacks items have to be ordered “Order in Anderson Room” Fetching time can take 20-30 mins – often less Use order slips in Anderson Room Only some closed access items are borrowable: Music specific fetching and rare materials 25

Ordering closed-stack items Books fetched to the West Room must be read there - books fetched to the Reading Room may be borrowed! 26

Borrowing Open-shelf material (including bound periodicals) and items fetched to the Reading Room may be borrowed. Grad & PG students can borrow 10 books for 8 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 27

Photocopying & scanning Photocopying room yes 28

Needs DRA account in use with your university card Photocopying & scanning Photocopying room Needs DRA account in use with your university card A4 = 10p A3 = 20p Scanning = 8p yes 29

Online academic sources yes www.raven.cam.ac.uk/ 30

www.cam.ac.uk/libraries 31 All our e-resources can be access from the Libraries Gateway which you’ve already seen. 31

http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk yes 32

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources Yes – music subject pages 33

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources ? 34

Facilities IT and web Photocopying/photographing material 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! yes 35

Regulations Please don’t bring in large bags (we have to do this for the security of our collections, or we would be a magnet for professional book thieves) maybe 36

Regulations Use your phone with discretion! maybe 37

Regulations Please only eat in the Tea Room, not in the reading rooms or stacks. (The Tea Room cheese scones are famously good though.) Maybe – add no water in Anderson Room 38

Regulations We only get one copy of each book published in Britain and Ireland, and we keep it forever as part of the national cultural heritage. We’d rather you didn’t write in them. yes 39

Opening hours UL building: Anderson Room: Mondays to Fridays 09.00 - 22.00 in Easter Full Term Saturdays 09.00 - 17.00 (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 Add music No fetching between 12:30 and 14.00 and after 17.00 (after 16:45 on Fridays & after 12:30 on Saturdays). No fetching - Saturday afternoons. 40

UL Main http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ library@lib.cam.ac.uk 01223 333000 Any questions? UL Main http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ library@lib.cam.ac.uk 01223 333000 Music Anderson Room: music@lib.cam.ac.uk 01223 333072 Pendlebury Library of Music: pendlebury@mus.cam.ac.uk 01223 35182 http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Music/portal/

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