Year: 2009

The Library has completed negotiations with an external service to provide catalog records for our Arabic language materials, enabling us to add records for these materials to our catalog for the first time.  By outsourcing cataloging to Arabic language experts,  the library will be able to make information about our… Read More

The Music Library’s Seminar Room can be reserved for faculty instruction or for group study by students. To reserve the room, go to http://lib1a.library.vanderbilt.edu/calendar/syswidecalsnew.htm.View the calendar to see open times to reserve, then click “Add Event”. The Seminar Room has listening/viewing equipment, a piano, a white board, and… Read More

Anna Perkins recently started working in the Wilson Music Library at the reference desk. Anna joins us from the University of North Texas (UNT) where she was working in the music library as a Graduate Library Assistant. The UNT Music Library has one of the largest academic music collections… Read More

Please join us for a workshop on OAK, led by Michael Hime, Blair’s Tier 1+ OAK support on Wednesdays, Sept. 2 and Sept. 9 from noon until 1 PM. Michael Hime will lend his expertise to interested faculty in the Music Library’s Seminar Room. Topics that will covered in… Read More

What do you think of our new web site? We’re interested in your feedback. Do you like the design? Can you navigate to the resources that you use frequently? Send your comments to the webmaster. Read More

Over the summer, the Music Library purchased the deluxe color facsimile of the Bologna Q 15 manuscript which is the largest international anthology of polyphonic music (masses and motets) of the early 15th century. It was compiled in the Veneto, in Padua in the early 1420s (stage I)… Read More

The Commodore Card has been redesigned for the first time in 12 years. The new card takes advantage of updated technology and provides greater security.  In the coming academic year, cards belonging to university students, faculty, and staff will be replaced.  Cards will continue to function seamlessly as borrowing… Read More

Welcome to the Library! Any time you have a question, just click on the button. We’ll answer your question as fast as we can. For a printable map to all of the campus libraries and answers to question about the library that you might have, check out… Read More

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, edited by Colin Larkin is now available on the Music Library’s web page. This resource is one of many titles that are offered through Oxford Reference Online, a package of electronic reference books that include the Oxford Companion to Music, Concise Oxford… Read More

Michael Hime, Blair’s Tier 1+ OAK support, will lend his expertise to interested faculty in a workshop on Wednesday, August 26, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Music Library Seminar Room. Topics that will covered in the workshop include how to make your course available to your students, how… Read More