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Faith Hoffman, stacks coordinator/circulation assistant, watches over the library stacks.
For the music aficionado, the Oberlin Library stacks are a dream come true. Just about any piece of music is easily accessible on the library shelves. Soon after the inauguration of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1865, the Conservatory library was established with approximately 10,000 scores forming its core collection. Today Faith Hoffman is the keeper of the Conservatory library stacks which have grown dramatically.
The Library's collection exceeds 180,000 items in the collection making it comparable to the largest music libraries in academic settings both public and private. The collection includes:
Ben Schaffer, a sophomore, circulation desk
assistant from West Hartford, Connecticut, finds a
CD recording.
- more than 53,000 sound recordings
- over 90,000 musical scores
- more than 50,000 books about music
- 220 periodical titles
- new acquisitions number at approximately 1,700 recordings, 2,700 scores, and 1,600 books each year
- a substantial foundation of Western art music from all historical periods, complete editions of the works of major composers, as well as a growing collection in the areas of women musicians and American, ethnic, contemporary, jazz, folk and popular music.
Hoffman and her staff work constantly to replace books, scores and recordings in their proper order on the shelves, a task she describes as "monumental, especially at the end of the term when all materials are due. After materials were returned last semester, it took 130 hours to return it all to the shelves. Usually, we try for a 48-hour turn-around."
FOURTH STOP: Listening stations, video rooms and "the fishbowl"
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