Western Libraries

Music Library Services

  • Access to Music Special Collections:
    -The Gustav Mahler-Alfred Rosé Collection
    -The Opera Collection
    -The Metastasio Collection
    -The Thomas Baker Collection
    -The Cherubini Collection
  • Audio Visual Equipment Available for use IN-LIBRARY:
    - CD players (both secured/in-library-use and portable players)
    - turntables (for playing records - a.k.a. LPs)
    - TV / VHS player / DVD player / mini-DV player / SIM-card reader-player
    - microcard viewer
    - microfilm reader
    - microfiche / microfilm reader-printer
    The Music Library does NOT loan portable A-V equipment; the Don Wright Faculty of Music circulates A-V equipment from its Main Office, TC 210.
  • Book Return - located in hallway near library doors - 2nd floor, Talbot College, Rm. 234
  • CD-Return - separate "bin" - located in hallway near library doors - 2nd floor, Talbot College, Rm. 234
  • CD loans to students, staff, and faculty (14 days, renewable x 3)
  • DVD loans to students, staff and faculty (3 days, NON-renewable - must be returned to the Music Library)
  • Copy-Card Charger - attached to photocopiers
  • E8 Copy-Card repairs - insert card into the card-reader attached to our Networked Printer
  • Photocopying - 2 photocopiers (use coins or copy-cards)
  • Networked Printer (uses copy-cards ONLY)
  • Research Help
    - is available in-person, by phone, via "chat" or by e-mail
    - Music Library handouts / help-pages - see our "Program Guides - MUSIC " pages
    - Need help finding DISSERTATIONS? Click HERE.
  • Seminar Room - NOT available for booking - houses the following:
    - microfiche & microfilm collection
    - microform readers + one CANON micro-reader-printer
    - overflow Reference
    -TV, plus VHS- mini-DV-, SIM-card reader-player, and DVD-players
  • Streamed Recordings available via the Western Libraries Catalogue - NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY and  Smithsonian Global Sound.
  • Streamed Video - via the Western Libraries Catalogue: OPERA IN VIDEO from Alexander Street Press