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Deborah Campana, Conservatory librarian, displays the facsimile, the Book of the Master or "Liber Officiorum," one of the earliest known encyclopedias.
The Conservatory library's music manuscripts reside in the Department of Special Collections, Mudd Center. A portion of the collection, the Violin Society of America/H. K. Goodkind Collection, for example, contains extensive monographic and journal literature on the construction, performance, teaching, collection and playing of stringed instruments. Another example, the C.W. Best Collection of Autographs given by Cyrus W. Best, an 1890 alumnus of the Conservatory, also resides in Special Collections. This collection contains letters and photographs of composers including Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy and Hector Berlioz.
The Conservatory library has also been the fortunate recipient of numerous gifts from the Friends of the Oberlin College Library. The most recent example includes the facsimile, the Book of the Master or as musicologists prefer, Liber Officiorum (or Codex 65, the manuscript found in the Biblioteca capitolare in Piacenza, Biblioteca Capitolare, and dates from the first half of the 12th century). This work contains the entire medieval repertory of chants for the celebration of the mass and the divine office.
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