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Pendlebury Library of Music: the end of the academic year.
The end of another academic year at the Pendlebury Library of Music is now upon us, so here’s a quick reminder of some of the highlights.
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The David Chadd Microfilm Collection
The Pendlebury has received a donation of around a hundred and fifty microfilms of manuscripts, ranging from eleventh-century chant books and sixteenth-century polyphonic fragments to early printed books and modern theses. Since October 2011, I have been steadily cataloguing the … Continue reading
CD highlights from the Greenwood Collection
You may have already read about the Phillip John Greenwood collection of CDs, donated this year to the Pendlebury Library. We are now coming to the end of cataloguing the collection, which has added over 500 CD titles to our … Continue reading
The Phillip John Greenwood collection
We frequently receive donations, and maybe unsurprisingly sometimes we receive offers of CDs. Miraculously, whereas a previous donation had a strong collection focus on jazz (see my post The Julian Andrews Collection) the newly-acquired Phillip John Greenwood Collection comprises almost … Continue reading
Cracking the code – the return
In my previous post on the complexities of music classmarks, I looked at the classmarks found on the open shelves of Cambridge University Library. Now for a quick look at the closed shelf classmarks. Many of the “backstage” music classmarks are … Continue reading
The Julian Andrews Collection
Most libraries receive donations, and some times a donated item goes to a library because it is not needed any more by the owner. At other times, someone dies and leaves a collection of scores, recordings, or books – or … Continue reading
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