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Types
of Materials
- The Lewis Music Library acquires
materials that support the music curriculum and serve the reference,
research, and recreational needs of the MIT community.
- The
collection includes approximately 16,000 books, 37,000 music scores, 24,000
recordings (CDs, DVDs, laserdiscs, and videocassettes), and 100 journal subscriptions.
- Recordings
are located in closed stacks and must be requested at the Service
Desk; LPs are in on-campus storage and may be requested through Your Account (MIT certificates needed) or from the Library Storage Annex request form.
- The library subscribes to many online journals, bibliographic databases, and online recordings which are described in the Music Research Guide and listed in Vera.
- The library circulates iPods which contain over 2,600 tracks from recent CDs. The iPods circulate overnight to MIT students, faculty, or staff members.
Collection Scope
- The
scope of the music collection is broad, with special emphasis
placed on 20th- and 21st-century music and electronic music.
- The
core of the collection is classical, although we also collect
jazz, blues, folk, popular, film, and world music.
- Rare
and vaulable materials are housed in the Lawrence Erdmann Special
Collections Room.
- Music
composed by MIT faculty members along with recordings of musical activity at MIT are also collected.
- The Inventions of Note Sheet
Music Collection highlights popular songs about new inventions published before 1923.
- The Music at MIT Oral History Project contains spoken interviews with transcripts documenting musical life at MIT.
This page was last updated on
07/28/09
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