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Announcements

Exhibit: How to Play: Instrumental Treatises, Instructors, and Self-Instructors from Six Centuries. Summer 2007. In conjunction with the American Musical Instrument Society's annual meeting at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments in June, the Music Library shows off some of its extensive collection of musical instrument treatises and self-tutors, ranging in time from Vincenzo Galilei's Fronimo of 1584 to Jusquin Turenne Des Pres' First Bass of 2005.

Events, exhibits, and news archive

Facilities

Study facilities include reading tables and armchairs in the Reference Room on the mezzanine level; study carrels in the Periodicals Room on the mezzanine level and in the basement; the Harold E. Samuel Recordings Listening Area with 40 listening stations (with various combinations of CD players, cassette tape players, and turntables), two video stations, and a Clavinova on the main level; and a Rare Books Reading Room on the mezzanine level.

Teaching facilities include two seminar rooms on the main level and the Historical Sound Recordings Seminar Room in the basement.

Network connections for laptops are available in the Reference Room and at the carrels in the Periodicals Room and basement stacks; wireless service is also available throughout the library.  A cluster of six research workstations is located on the main level.  One workstation is available for readers with visual disabilities and also supports web pages in non-Roman script.

Exhibit areas are on the main level and the mezzanine.

Photocopiers are located on the first floor (between offices ML112 and ML115) and on the mezzanine beside the elevator.  The copiers only take copy cards which can be purchased in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library.

Library Hours

Academic Term: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 am-9:00 pm; Friday 8:30 am-5:00 pm;
    Saturday 10:00 am.-5:00 pm; Sunday 1:00 pm-9:00 pm.
Summer Hours:  Monday-Wednesday & Friday 8:30 am-5:00 pm; Thursday 8:30 am-9:00 pm;
   Saturday - Sunday Closed.
Intersession and Break Hours:  Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-5:00 pm; Saturday-Sunday Closed.
The Music Library is usually closed on holidays and university recess days.
For the exceptions to the schedule, please see Yale University Library Hours-Music.

Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday: Closed
Closed also on the following holidays (2007-2008): Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 3), Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 22-Friday, November 23), Winter Recess (Monday, December 24-Tuesday, January 1), Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday (Monday, January 21), Good Friday (Friday, March 21), Memorial Day (Monday, May 26), Independence Day (Friday, July 4)

*NOTE:  Most archival collections are now shelved off-campus and require several business days for retrieval.  Please make an appointment with special collections staff in advance to study manuscripts and archival collections.

Service to these collections is currently limited as some materials have been placed in inaccessible storage.
Hours: By Appointment with the Curator.

Staff

Staff (by name -- Staff have e-mail accounts in the form firstname.lastname@yale.edu; append @yale.edu to each e-mail address below)

Bartlett, Helen, Assistant Music Librarian for Technical Services, Office Suite ML106M, (203) 432-0493, e-mail: helen.bartlett

Bailey, Mark, Research Associate, Historical Sound Recordings Collection and American Musical Theatre, Room ML2, (203) 432-1795; e-mail: mark.bailey

Boursy, Richard, Archivist, Office Suite ML106M, (203) 432-7883; e-mail: richard.boursy

Heater, Eva, Cataloging Assistant, Office Suite ML106M, (203) 432-7883, e-mail: eva.heater

Koth, Michelle, Catalog Librarian, Office Suite ML106M, (203) 432-0494, e-mail: michelle.koth

Lovejoy, Suzanne Eggleston, Acting Music Librarian / Assistant Music Librarian for Public Services, Room ML112, (203) 432-0497, e-mail: suzanne.lovejoy, or musiclibrary@yale.edu ; IM SuzanneatYaleLib or YaleMusicLib (AIM, Gtalk, MSN, or Yahoo; weekdays, 10-4, as available)

Mansi, Kathryn, Circulation Supervisor, Room ML111, (203) 432-4027, e-mail: kathryn.mansi

Napert, Diane, Catalog Librarian, Office Suite ML106M, (203) 432-0726, e-mail: diane.napert

Niemeyer, Julie, Acquisitions Assistant, Office Suite ML106M, (203) 432-0492, e-mail: julie.niemeyer

Schrom, Karl, Recordings Collection Supervisor, Room ML111, (203) 432-0498, e-mail: karl.schrom

Warren, Richard, Curator, Historical Sound Recordings Collection and American Musical Theatre Collection, Room ML115, (203) 432-1795; e-mail: richard.warren