The Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library -- What a cool source!!

Did you know that we have the 12 volume set, The Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library, on permanent reserve? Do you know what that means? You can print out the part for your instrument for orchestral pieces by the following composers:

Arne, Thomas - volume 10
Auber, Daniel-Francois - volume 1
Bach, Johann Sebastian - volume 10
Bach, Carl Phillip Emmanuel - volume 10
Bartók, Béla - volume 8
Beethoven, Ludwig van - volume 1
Bellini, Vincenzo - volume 1
Berlioz, Hector - volume 1
Bizet, Georges- volume 2
Bloch, Ernest - volume 9
Boccherini, Luigi - volume 10
Borodin, Alexander - volume 5
Brahms, Johannes - volume 3
Bruch, Max - volume 2
Bruckner, Anton - volume 2
Busoni, Ferruccio - volume 2
Carpenter, John Alden - volume 9
Chabrier, Emmanuel - volume 3
Chadwick, Charles - volume 7
Chausson, Ernest - volume 3
Cherubini, Luigi - volume 1
Chopin, Frederic - volume 3
Cimarosa, Domenico - volume 10
d'Indy, Vincent - volume 7
Debussy, Claude - volume 2
Delius, Frederick - volume 7
Dittersdorf, Karl - volume 10
Dohnányi, Ernst Von - volume 8
Donizetti, Gaetano - volume 1
Dukas, Paul - volume 7
Dvorak, Antonin - volume 5
Elgar, Edward - volume 7
Enesco, Georges - volume 8
Falla, Manuel de - volume 8
Fauré, Gabriel - volume 2
Franck, César - volume 3
Glazunov, Alexander - volume 8
Glinka, Mikhail - volume 4
Gluck, Christoph Willibald - volume 10
Grieg, Edvard - volume 2
Griffes, Charles - volume 7
Handel, George Frideric - volume 10
Haydn, Franz Joseph - volume 6
Hérold, Louis Ferdinand - volume 10
Holst, Gustav - volume 7
Janácek, Leoš - volume 8
Lalo, Edouard - volume 3
Liszt, Franz - volume 3
Lully, Jean-Baptiste - volume 10
Mahler, Gustav - volume 2
Méhul, Étienne-Nicolas - volume 10
Mendelssohn, Felix - volume 1
Milhaud, Darius - volume 8
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - volume 6
Mussorgsky, Modest - volume 4
Nielsen, Carl - volume 7
Offenbach, Jacques - volume 3
Paisiello, Giovanni - volume 10
Prokofiev, Sergei - volume 8
Rachmaninoff, Sergei - volume 8
Rameau, Jean-Philippe - volume 10
Ravel, Maurice - volume 7
Reger, Max - volume 2
Respighi, Ottorino - volume 8
Rimsky-Korsakoff, Nicolai - volume 5
Rossini, Gioacchino - volume 1
Saint-Saëns, Camille - volume 2
Sarasate, Pablo de - volume 3
Schubert, Franz - volume 1
Schumann, Robert - volume 3
Scriabin, Alexander - volume 5
Sibelius, Jean - volume 9
Smetana, Bedrich - volume 5
Strauss, Richard - volume 9
Strauss, Johann - volume 9
Stravinsky, Igor - volume 8
Suppe, Franz von - volume 3
Tchaikovsky, Peter - volume 9
Vaughan Williams, Ralph - volume 8
Wagner, Richard - volumes 11 & 12
Weber, Carl Maria von - volume 1
Webern, Anton - volume 9

The volumes from this set will show up in your catalog searches for musical scores. Their call number is M1000.O72. Since this set is on permanent reserve you can borrow volumes for up to 2-hours for in Music Library use. Just ask at the Desk. You can then use one of our sign-in computers to print the parts that you need from the cd-rom. Printing costs are $.04 per page.

Questions? Please ask us. We're here to help you.

Composer list borrowed from http://www.orchmusiclibrary.com/products_listing.php?list_type=composersAll

How to be a BAD Music Library User Taking Good Care of Music Library Materials

Back in August, I wrote a post entitled Some Reminders for our ML Patrons that listed several ways in which you, as a Music Library user, could treat the library well. Today I’m going to address two of those items in greater detail and provide photographic evidence of ways in which Music Library materials have been treated badly. I'll also list the possible costs of various types of damage. (Click on photos for larger view, if needed.)

Please don't write, put tape on or in any way manipulate Library materials, this includes scores.
Here’s the deal, folks. Materials that you borrow from a library do not belong to you. They are not yours; you are borrowing them for a limited amount of time. (Yes, I am aware that I’m being repetitive. I’m hoping that it will help to make my point.) Once you return an item, someone else is going to use it. Shouldn’t they get a chance to use it in pristine condition?

[Writing] Those markings that you made in a score may have been helpful to you, but the person using it after you doesn’t want to see them. You may be saying to yourself, but isn’t it okay as long as I use a pencil? No! Erasing, even when you use a gentle stroke and a special gummy eraser, damages paper. There is a simple solution, just don’t do it. If you’re studying a score in a way that’s going to lead you to write it in, shouldn’t you purchase it for your personal library anyway? That way you, your studio teacher or your accompanist can do as much score marking as you wish.

Cost: $.25 per page for pencil marks; $.50 per page for ink, highlighter, crayon, etc.

[Tape] Tape is an enemy of paper! Audrey Sage of Preservation Services in Jackson Library tells me that, “Tape rots paper.” There it is folks - from an expert, tape and paper don’t mix as far as library materials are concerned. (Please don’t attempt to repair library items with tape; there's more about that in the last section of this post.)

I’ve also noticed lately that some scores have been coming back to the Music Library with photocopies taped to them. It appears that this is done for ease of page turning. Accompanists, please, please don’t do it. Ask someone to turn pages for you.
Cost: Up to $5.00 per page

[Post-it Notes, Sticky Flags, Paper Clips, Folds, etc] Here’s the rule: don’t attach anything to library materials. Sticky things like post-it notes and those handy flags leave chemicals that break down paper. Paperclips, especially the uncoated ones, leave rust stains. Paperclips also damage paper by leaving indentations behind. Folding pages weakens them and leads to rips and tears. If you need to keep your place, use a bookmark or a slip of paper.
Cost: $.10 per post-it notes, flags, paper clip, fold, etc.; More for ripped pages

[Pets] This one is easy! When you take library materials home, make sure that you leave them in a place where your pets can’t reach them.
Cost: from $15 for new cover to $125 for replacement

[Liquids] Keep library materials dry. If it’s raining, ask a library staff member for a bag to protect your scores and books. Don’t drop your library book in a puddle. When you’re at home, don’t read library materials while you’re having a soak in the tub. Don’t spill your coffee on library materials. Be careful! If an item does get wet, bring it to the Music Library immediately. The quicker the wet item can be dealt with the lower the chance that it will have to be replaced and the lower the fees that you will be charged.
Costs: varies according to the amount of damage, but can be as high as $125 for replacement

If a Library item in your possession is or becomes damaged, please do not attempt to repair it. Bring the item back to us and we will send it to the Preservation staff at Jackson Library for repair.
Do-It-Yourself is never a good idea when it comes to repairing library materials. Even if it’s just one ripped page, bring the item to the Music Library and we’ll enlist the help of Audrey Sage and Stefani Hobbick in the University Libraries Preservation Services Department. In emergency cases, we’ll even walk the item to Jackson Library, have Stefani or Audrey repair it on the spot, and bring the item back to you.

Some Important Links

University Libraries' Library Crimes

Dean of Students Office's Academic Integrity Misuse of Academic Resources

Music Library Assocaition's Repairs and Conservation of Scores and Sheet Music

American Library Association's Code of Ethics

If you have any questions about damaged library items, please leave a comment or contact me at mkamos@uncg.edu. If you think of other examples of things one shouldn’t do to library materials, please share those as well.

Thanks for taking care of our stuff!
mka, Your Evening/Weekend Music Library Manager

All photos by Mallory McComas, Veteran Music Library Student Assistant

Some Reminders for our ML Patrons

We, the Music Library Staff, are happy to help you! We'd like to ask you to help us by taking a look at the following reminders.

• Please do not re-shelve library materials. Once you've taken something off the shelf, place it on the cart near the Reference Table or bring it to the Desk. We keep track of the number of Library items used each day. Also, when you refrain from re-shelving it helps to keep items from getting lost.

• Please don't write, put tape on or in any way manipulate Library materials, this includes scores.

• If a Library item in your possession is or becomes damaged, please do not attempt to repair it. Bring the item back to us and we will send it to the Preservation staff at Jackson Library for repair.

• Remember that food is not allowed in the Music Library. Beverages in secure containers are okay. (That means that your container needs a lid. Canned drinks are a big no-no.)

• Please silence your cell phone while in the Music Library and step outside the Library to take calls.

• We are diligently working on the noise levels in the Music Library so please speak quietly. We greatly appreciate your cooperation with this as we really don't enjoy shushing people. If you catch ML Staff being loud, please shush us!

• The ML is not responsible for items that you leave unattended. Please take your personal items with you when you leave. If you step out for a moment ask a friend to keep an eye on your stuff.

• Feel free to ask us questions, we promise not to bite. :)

Thanks so much for helping to make our Music Library a great place to study.