University Libraries

The Music and Dance Library collections provide you with access to scores, recordings, and databases to support your success as a music student. Best of all, you can borrow almost everything!

The numbers:

• 30,597 books about music, dance, and related disciplines
• 42,137 scores in all formats, e.g., full, performance, study, collected works editions of individual composers
• 39,484 recordings in most formats--CDs, LPs (i.e., vinyl), DVDs, yes, even cassette tapes and videotapes. All of which can be watched or listened to in the AV Room in the Music and Dance Library. Want to take a CD or DVD home but don't have the proper drive in your computer? We lend external disc drives for 24 hours at a time.
• Many periodicals, both current subscriptions and archival volumes

Finding things:

• Use the ALICE Catalog to find what you want. For help using ALICE, see the instructions in the Music Research guide.
• For a list and access to our music-related subscriptions, see the Music Research guide, found on the Music and Dance Library web page. 
• Not sure what you want? See the tabs at left for help with browsing the collections--both physically and virtually.
• If you don't find what you're looking for in ALICE, look in OhioLINK. For more information, see the OhioLINK section in the Music Research guide
• Still can't find it? Contact Dr. Williams

WARNING: Much can be found online, but how reliable are the results and how much are you expected to pay? The library provides all of the above for you free of charge!