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

2. 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) - 350+ 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

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

4. 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

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

6. Finding your way around Milstein Room

7. 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.

8. Layout of Music open shelves

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

11. Newton Catalogues Newton Catalogues: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/ - Good for searches limited to UL, Pendlebury (O-Z), or your College

12. 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

13. 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

14. Example of composer with sub-divisions

15. More… Finding Printed Music – session Finding Printed Music Thu 24 October 2013 15:30-16:30 IT Training Rm, Cambridge University Library

16. How to interpret a catalogue record?

17. Interpreting Cataloguing records

18. Newton Search, Departments and Faculties O-Z

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

20. 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 RoomM210.a.95.5 UL: Order in Anderson Room (Not borrowable) MRS.8.2834

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

22. Layout of Music open shelves

23. 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

24. Layout of Music open shelves

25. 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

26. 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:

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

28. 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

29. Photocopying & scanning Photocopying room

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

31. Online academic sources www.raven.cam.ac.uk/

32. www.cam.ac.uk/libraries

33. http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk

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

36. 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!

37. Regulations

41. Opening hours UL building: Mondays to Fridays 09.00 - 19.15 (No Admittance after 19.00) 09.00 - 22.00 in Easter Full TermEaster 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 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.

42. 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 http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Music/portal/ Pendlebury Library of Music: pendlebury@mus.cam.ac.uk 01223 35182

43. Research Skills Programme