Here are Jones Library's staffed hours during Thanksgiving break. Please note that our printed collections are available whenever Ritter Library is open. Those hours are available at http://libguides.bw.edu/content.php?pid=86103&sid=640462.

Jones Library hours
Wednesday, November 24 through Friday, November 26 - CLOSED
Saturday, November 27 - 1:00--5:00PM
Sunday, November 28 - 2:00--7:00PM

Incidentally, I posted some pictures of the library under renovation to the Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jones-Music-Library-Baldwin-Wallace-College/127938017226780). It's pretty cool to see what's being done there, with walls torn down and the like.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Paul Cary

A few new scores

Just a few highlights from our most recent contemporary scores approval plan:

Songs by John Duke, Peter Maxwell Davies (for boy treble or soprano), Milton Babbitt, and Judith Weir; a violin concerto by Magnus Lindberg; Hue and Cry for wind orchestra by Steven Stucky; a piano trio by Aulis Sallinen; and Earle Brown's Corroboree for 2 or 3 pianos, which features such techniques as fingernail pizz and forearm clusters.

We have also begun posting lists of new acquisitions at our Web site. Right now, lists for September and October are available.

Paul Cary

Classical Scores Library

One of the things I hope to do with the blog is to highlight some of our more significant resources. Today, I wanted to make sure that you're aware of Classical Scores Library, an online collection of scores (and parts) from Alexander Street Press. We've had a subscription for a year or two, but it has grown substantially in the last few months. What was once (in my view) a kind of free pot-sweetener with the online version of the Garland Encyclopedia is now a large, significant collection that provides access to 25,000 scores from anywhere you might be. It's certainly not going to replace our print collection, but it's a valuable adjunct. For example, the collection includes 37 scores by Mahler (including all the symphonies), 939 by Mozart, 322 by Schutz, and 48 by Sculthorpe. The interface is not perfect, but it does allow you to search and browse. I believe the scores are all stored as PDFs, and you can print as much as you want.

If you're on campus, you can simply go to http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com/. If you're off campus, start at http://www.bw.edu/academics/libraries/jones/. Please let us know if you have any questions or problems.

Paul Cary, 440-826-8074, pcary@bw.edu.