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Some fantastic (and many familiar!) names are going to be at SLC on Friday and Saturday, April 19th and 20th for the SLC Folk Fest.
Looks like it’ll be a fantastic show - we’ll definitely be there!
Welcome back! Hope you all had a relaxing break, as we’re about to go through some big changes here.
Due to overwhelming demand in this year’s Annual Library Survey, the SLC Music Library has already begun to transition to an all-vinyl sound recording collection. Shown above are two SLC Librarians, Reference Librarian Gina Levitan and Music Librarian Charlotte Price, getting the new collection ready for use.
Vinyl recordings have been on the rise for quite some time now, with current-day music groups releasing recordings on vinyl in addition to digitally or on CD. There’s a kind of sound quality you can get on vinyl that isn’t easily replicated on CD.
As of now, the SLC Music Library has collected almost 2,000 LPs. You can find them in our catalog by clicking here, or conducting a normal search along with the letters LP in an additional search box. You’ll see the new Shelving Location “Vinyl” in the record, as shown in the above image.
Just ask the Circulation Worker to show you to the closet on the 2nd floor where the LPs are kept (during daytime hours only), and either feel free to use them in the Music Library or check one out and take it home for a week. Let us know how you like our new service!
As many of you may have guessed, this post was an April Fool’s Day joke! At least some of it was. We really DO have roughly 2,000 LPs on the 2nd floor of Marshall Field and you really can check them out.
However, our roughly 6,000 CDs aren’t going anywhere right now (except maybe to your dorm room as you listen to them). We also have ways for you to listen to and rip LPs in the Music Library. Stop by my desk in Marshall Field if you’re interested in how to do this!
Welcome back! Hope you all had a relaxing break, as we’re about to go through some big changes here.
Due to overwhelming demand in this year’s Annual Library Survey, the SLC Music Library has already begun to transition to an all-vinyl sound recording collection. Shown above are two SLC Librarians, Reference Librarian Gina Levitan and Music Librarian Charlotte Price, getting the new collection ready for use.
Vinyl recordings have been on the rise for quite some time now, with current-day music groups releasing recordings on vinyl in addition to digitally or on CD. There’s a kind of sound quality you can get on vinyl that isn’t easily replicated on CD.
As of now, the SLC Music Library has collected almost 2,000 LPs. You can find them in our catalog by clicking here, or conducting a normal search along with the letters LP in an additional search box. You’ll see the new Shelving Location “Vinyl” in the record, as shown in the above image.
Just ask the Circulation Worker to show you to the closet on the 2nd floor where the LPs are kept (during daytime hours only), and either feel free to use them in the Music Library or check one out and take it home for a week. Let us know how you like our new service!
I arrived back from Spring Break to see a sure sign of spring at last - softball practice behind Marshall Field! A welcome harbinger indeed.
Congratulations on making it to Spring Break! Since so many of you are leaving campus for (hopefully warmer) climes, the SLC Music Library will have limited hours during break.
We’ll be closed weekends, and during the week our hours will vary:
- Mondays and Wednesdays: 11am-5pm
- Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9am-3pm
- Fridays: 1pm-5pm
Regular hours resume Monday, April 1st. Be aware, Marshall Field will be swipe access only during break so bring your ID card.
If you need to return items when the Music Library is closed, use the book drop at the Main Library as we do not have one.
Marshall Field may be covered in snow, but the Music Library is open today until 5pm!
Mark your calendars!
Two weeks from today, onWednesdayTODAY, March 6th, the SLC Library is hosting its annual book giveaway.Show up at the Library’s loading dock (see map below) between 10am and 6pm and avail yourself of all kinds of free books, sheet music, and CDs! Make sure to bring your own bag.
Hey people who like free books, this is happening right now! There are even plastic bags to use if you forgot your own!
Mark your calendars! Two weeks from today, on Wednesday, March 6th, the SLC Library is hosting its annual book giveaway.
Show up at the Library’s loading dock (see map below) between 10am and 6pm and avail yourself of all kinds of free books, sheet music, and CDs! Make sure to bring your own bag.
Don’t forget! One more week until the SLC Library Book Giveaway! Free books, y’all.
Few people realize that the Music Library has a great collection of print periodical! While most of our periodicals are online, not all are.
Some examples of cool periodicals we’ve gotten lately:
- American Music, with an article called “Historical Authenticity Meets DIY: The Mass-Market Harpsichord in the Cold War United States”
- Contemporary Music Review, featuring an entire issue on John Cage
- Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain - an entire journal on neurosciences and music! Featuring such articles as Ever-Changing Cycles of Musical Pleasure: The Role of Dopamine and Anticipation
You can’t check out periodicals, but you can browse and read the articles in the beautiful splendor that is the Music Library.
Mark your calendars! Two weeks from today, on Wednesday, March 6th, the SLC Library is hosting its annual book giveaway.
Show up at the Library’s loading dock (see map below) between 10am and 6pm and avail yourself of all kinds of free books, sheet music, and CDs! Make sure to bring your own bag.
Need a break from conference work? Love music? (Of course you do!)
Make a mix-tape (CD, really, but that doesn’t sound as nice) for the Music Library’s Make-a-mixtape-Take-a-mixtape box! Just make sure to return each mixtape when you’re done enjoying them.
The mixtape box is located just inside the door of the Music Library, which is open
- Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm
- Fridays 9am-5pm
- Saturdays 1pm-5pm
- Sundays 5pm-9pm
Chartres. Part of a huge cataloging effort at the moment. The original slide collection has over four hundred slides of this building. About seventy will make it into LUNA.
Taking a quick break from music, our friends over at the Visual Resources department in Heimbold have a Tumblr too! If you’re interested in art, architecture, history, painting, photography, or any of the graphic arts, you should go over and take a look.
Spring has arrived at Marshall Field! The lilacs are blooming already.
