April is Jazz Appreciation month. Come see the excellent display highlighting just a few of the Library's jazz-related materials. We've got books, scores, CDs, and DVDs of jazz music, documentaries, and performances that you can check out from the Library.
http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/music
Nearly 100 musical scores from UIUC's Music Library were digitized recently at the Open Content Alliance/Internet Archive scanning center on campus. Represented in this new online collection are Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, Jerome Kern, and Gilbert & Sullivan. The Music Library is one of the largest collections of its kind at a public university, and is currently ranked among the top ten music libraries in the United States. Its collections contain more than 765,000 volumes, including over 55,000 books, 520,000 scores, 19,000 microforms, 150,000 sound recordings, and over 20,000 items in other formats and media. (text borrowed from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/digitizedbotw/2008/05/musical_scores_from_the_univer.html)
UIUC's academic year ended with graduation this weekend--congratulations to all of our graduates!
During the year we aim to post at least one item per day on this blog, but with summer upon us, we may be posting less often. We hope you'll check in when you get a chance, and we'll be back to our regular schedule come fall.
The scanner in the Music Library is currently out of order. We'll let you know when it's working again.
You might have noticed the new journals display area near the reading room on the first floor. We've selected several dozen of the top journal titles in music, dance, and theatre, and will display current issues face-out (recent issues are in the shelves beneath). Older issues and journal titles not in this display (we have hundreds) can be found in the journals area in the northwest corner of the first floor.
A new scanner is up and running in the Music and Performing Arts Library. Directions are on the machine cover; if you have any questions, just ask us!
Help the Music and Performing Arts Library redesign our website. For one hour of your time (during which you'll follow some simple tasks using our website) we will give you a $10 Espresso Royale gift card. Interested music, dance, and theatre students and faculty should contact Kirstin Dougan (dougan@illinois.edu) or 244-4072.
Did you hear the one about the musician, the dancer, and the actor? No? Me neither, I was just trying to think of a catchy way to let you know that the Music Library has recently been renamed the Music and Performing Arts Library. This change reflects that our holdings now include Theatre materials as well and Music and Dance. Our new website, which will more accurately reflect our new collections will be released later this summer.
As many of you know, we acquired many theatre-related materials from the English Library over the Spring and Summer. We've got
---> periodicals (1st floor, on the new periodicals shelves facing the reading room and in the periodicals stacks near the reading room).
---> new playscripts (1st floor, on the shelves facing the M3 reference scores)
---> older playscripts (1st floor, Dewey sequences 811 (for American drama) or 822 (for English drama)
---> books (1st floor; Dewey sequence 792 and 808-830 (roughly); LC sequence PC-PS)
