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

2. 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)
DVDs (strong on opera)
- Very strong microfilm and facsimile collection 2

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

4. 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 4

5. Find us all at www.cam.ac.uk/libraries5

6. Finding your way around
yes
Milstein Room 6

7. Layout of Music open shelves

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Example of composer with sub-divisions

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

15. How to interpret a catalogue record?15

16. Interpreting Cataloguing records

17. Newton Search, Departments and Faculties O-Z

18. Size matters
We classmark open shelf material according to size to save space:
a (very big)
b (big)
c (standard)
d (small) 18

19. 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 Room
M210.a.95.5
UL: Order in Anderson Room (Not borrowable)
MRS
Music example 19

20. 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

21. Layout of Music open shelves

22. 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

23. Layout of Music open shelves

24. 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

25. 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

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

27. 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

28. Photocopying & scanning
Photocopying room
yes 28

29. 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

30. Online academic sources
yes 30

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

32.
yes 32

33.
Yes – music subject pages 33

34. ? 34

35. 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

36. 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

37. Regulations
Use your phone with discretion!
maybe 37

38. 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

39. 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

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

41. UL Main http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ library@lib.cam.ac.uk 01223 333000
Any questions?
UL Main
Music
Anderson Room:
Pendlebury Library of Music:

42. Research Skills Programme