2024-05-06: Relocation of Music Library collection and services in summer (On Behalf of Alan Grosenheider, Deputy University Librarian)

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UCSB Community

May 6, 2024

TO:   Campus Community

FR:   Alan Grosenheider, Deputy University Librarian

RE:  Relocation of Music Library collection and services in summer

The Library is creating a new Arts Library by bringing together the Music and Art & Architecture collections into a modernized space on the main Library’s 1st floor Mountain Side where the Art & Architecture collection is currently housed. Construction is currently underway to prepare this space for the combined Music and Art & Architecture collections and services.

Relocation of Music Library collections and services

In order to accommodate moving the Music collection to its new home in the main Library, the Music Library will be closed to the public as early as July 22. Music collection materials will be inaccessible to patrons for the approximately eight weeks it takes to move all collections into the Arts Library and construction is completed. We recommend that you borrow print materials you anticipate needing in Summer quarter and, to be safe, in early Fall quarter prior to the closure. Once the Music collection is in transit, you will have to use Interlibrary Loan to obtain copies of print materials that are temporarily inaccessible. 

We are currently exploring keeping the Music Library services desk and the Seminar Room open as long as we can over the summer to accommodate access to listening equipment for the media collections and to assist patrons with questions.

Music Course Reserves

For users of Course Reserves, all Music Course Reserves will move to the main Library Services Desk starting with the summer sessions. A follow-up message to all summer instructors will include details on submitting Course Reserves for the summer. Digitization of Library media collections for Course Reserves will be discontinued by the beginning of Fall quarter. We have many subscriptions to streaming music content and are in the process of purchasing new streaming resources. Links to this content can be placed on electronic Course Reserves. Additionally, physical media can be placed on Course Reserves for all students in a course.

We will notify you in advance of the exact dates of the Music collection move, permanent closure of the Music Library, and other milestones in order to minimize the project’s impact on your research, teaching, and learning.

For the latest information about the project, please visit Arts Library Project   or contact Alan Grosenheider, Deputy University Librarian, at alang@ucsb.edu.