Music and Performing Arts Library: Welcome New Students  Tags: music theatre dance new_student  

The Music and Performing Arts Library is a pretty big place with over 500,000 items. We have lots of materials in different formats--most of which is available for you to check out. The library catlog will tell you the location and call number of the items. Here's where to find those locations throughout the Library and what types of materials you'll find there.

A Word About Call Numbers

The Music and Performing Arts Library uses both the Dewey Decimal Classification system and the Library of Congress Classification system for our call numbers. New items get LC numbers (GV: dance; M, ML, MT: music; PL, PN, etc: theatre) while older items have Dewey numbers. This means you may need to look in more than one place for items on your topic. The exception is the reference collection--all reference books and scores have LC numbers.

Locations within the Music and Performing Arts Library

Location: Music & Performing Arts

Books: First floor
Scores and Miniature Scores: Second floor
Scores with "F." preceding the call number: Second floor along the wall
Items with "Q." preceding the call number: Are interfiled with other items--ignore the Q.

Location: Music & Performing Arts Media Collection

CDs, DVDs: Take the call number to the Circulation Desk and the item will be paged for you.

Location: Music & Performing Arts
c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Music & Performing Arts Reserves

Ask for these materials (books, scores, recordings, videos) at the circulation desk.

Location: Music & Performing Arts Reference [non-circulating]

Books and scores: First floor across from the stairs

Location: Music & Performing Arts Periodicals [cannot be requested]

Journals: First floor by the reading room; there are also some current issues on display facing the reading rooms, directly across from the windows.

Location: Music & Performing Arts Special Collection [non-circulating]

Books, scores, LPs, microfilms, other materials: Take the call number to the Circulation Desk and the item will be paged for you.

Other locations with music, dance, and theatre materials

Several other libraries on campus have materials relating to music, dance, or theatre. There are materials in the Main Stacks and several of the departmental libaries (e.g., the Business Library may have materials relating to music business, the English Library has materials relating to theatre, the Applied Health Sciences Library may will have materials relating to kinesiology and dance). In addition, many older, less-used items are in our off-site location (Location: Oak Street Facility [request only]) and many films are located in the Undergraduate Library (Location: Undergraduate Media Collection).

Availability

The library catalog will also tell you whether the item is on the shelf or not.

Some examples of item statuses:

Available--if an item says 'available' and it's on the shelf, ask at the Reference Desk and we can help you track it down.
Checked out--you can request items that have been checked out
Backlog--ask for this at the circ or ref desk and we can get it to you within about 2 days)
Lost--this item has been marked lost because it is considerably overdue
Missing-- the last time someone tried to find this item on the shelf it wasn't there