1. Working together in Cambridge: music Anna Pensaert Head of Music CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Clemens Gresser Deputy Head of Music

2. Starting the project 2008: General Board Review of Teaching and Learning Support Services Working together: developing synergies between the UL’s music department and the Pendlebury Library of Music Discussions about options and best way forward

3. Music pilot 3 year pilot project for music collections Previous structure: two independent posts Head of Music, UL Pendlebury Librarian New Structure: two related posts, shared between two institutions Head of Music Deputy Head of Music

4. Enhancing services Maintaining individual strengths Developing more coherent and coordinated services: Collection development and acquisitions Research skills User services Promoting the collections …

5. Overview – a critical reality check 1.Avoiding each other and meeting each other! Ships… 2.50% is not 50%... 3.Bi-location, it’s not just “over the road”… 4.2+3+2 ≠ 7 music librarians 5.Bi-location and technical issues 6.Achievements and “other benefits”

6. Bi-location and technical issues - Voyager Spot the difference!

7. 4. Bi-location and technical issues – File storage Camtools vs Shared Drive at Pen via VPN

8. Bi-location and technical issues – web pages IP recognition (no updates UL or Pen pages independent from location!) -> can be fixed, but… UL -> FTP server & HTML Faculty -> WordPress

9. 5. Achievements and “other benefits” - started in September -Team of 6: 3 volunteers 3 ft members of staff - Blogger team from both libraries

10. Other benefits of the current model Knowing both collections -> advise users of one library of benefits of other library Coordinate acquisition -> sometimes duplicate, say, sheet music for practical reasons -> concentrate on one holding at library for expensive acquisitions (collected editions)

11. Any questions? Anna Pensaert amljp2@cam.ac.uk Clemens Gresser cg474@cam.ac.uk