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This category refers to real music libraries, not to virtual compilations.

Resources in This Category

• Anne Potter Wilson Music Library

  http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/music
  Housed in the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, offering thousands of scores, books on historical musical periods, reference materials, periodicals, and recordings.

• Archives of African American Music and Culture

  http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/
  Special collection of the Indiana University library in Bloomington provides access to oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and educational broadcast programs.

• Arthur Friedheim Library

  http://musiclibrary.peabody.jhu.edu/
  Serving the faculty and students of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, the Peabody Preparatory Division and all other divisions of The Johns Hopkins University.

• Bodleian Library

  http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley
  The main research and copyright deposit library of the University of Oxford.

• Center for Popular Music

  http://www.mtsu.edu/popmusic/
  An archive and research center for the study of American popular music from the pre-revolutionary era to the present, at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.

• Cleveland Institute of Music Library

  http://www.cim.edu/library/
  Includes hours, services, map, and an overview of the collections.

• Cornell University Music Library

  http://music.library.cornell.edu/
  Includes a collection of printed music, sound/visual recordings and writings consisting primarily of Western music and dance. It does include a representative body of non-Western, folk and popular musics.

• Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library

  http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/#loebmusic
  Harvard University's principal resource for music books, scores, sound recordings, and videos. It also serves the international community as a research facility for musical scholarship.

• Indiana University: William & Gayle Cook Music Library

  https://libraries.indiana.edu/music
  Large academic music library offers online access to various collections, as well as links to musical performers, research topics, and commercial entities.

• International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres

  http://www.iaml.info/
  Currently has about 2,000 individual and institutional members in some 45 countries, comprising major music collections, librarians, archivists and documentation specialists, musicologists, publishers and dealers.

• Lewis Music Library

  http://libraries.mit.edu/music/
  Located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Includes hours, location and map, services, an overview of the collections, web resources organized by subject, a help section, research material, policies, news and FAQ.

• Stanford Music Library

  http://library.stanford.edu/music
  Located in the Braun Music Center at Stanford University in California. Includes collections, resources, services, facilities and general information.

• The Gabe M. Wiener Music and Arts Library

  http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/music/about.html
  Located at Columbia University in New York City. Guide to the collections.

• UC Berkeley Music Library

  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MUSI/
  Features a large collection of music manuscripts and archival materials. Includes links to indexes, databases and music journals. Reference services are available.

• University of North Texas Music Library

  http://www.library.unt.edu/music/
  Emphasizing jazz big band education, with staff and contact information, policies, and information on collections.

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