The
University of the Arts Music Library
Merriam Theater Building
250 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
Telephones
Circulation Desk: 215-717-6291/6292
Reference Assistance: 215-717-6293
Fax: 215-717-6287
Library Hours
Monday -
Thursday: 8:15am - 8:00pm
Friday: 8:15am - 6:00pm
Saturday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sunday: 4:00 - 9:00pm
Staff
Dr. Mark Germer,
Music Librarian
Merriam Theater Building
Room 301
215-717-6293
mgermer@uarts.edu
Lars Halle,
Circulation Supervisor
215-717-6291
lhalle@uarts.edu
Emily Butler,
Circulation Supervisor
215-717-6292
ebutler@uarts.edu
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About the Music Library
The University of the Arts Music Library is a specialized library
supporting academic programs in music performance and education,
interarts studies, musical theater, and dance. Originating in the
teaching collections of the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music (founded
1877), the Philadelphia Musical Academy (1870), and the Philadelphia
Dance Academy (1947), the Music Library's collections are strong in
performance and study score editions, scores of twentieth-century
schools of composition, jazz transcription anthologies, and songs of
the contemporary American theater. In addition to its holdings in
canonical and theoretical subjects central to the Western tradition,
the collection continues to be developed in interdisciplinary studies,
jazz and blues, music folklore, pedagogy, the psychology of music, and
music entertainment economics. Holdings include approximately 22,000
scores, 18,000 books and journal volumes, 12,000 LP discs, and 6,000
CDs.
Overlooking Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts, the Music Library
occupies space in the historic Shubert Theatre building (renamed the
Merriam Theater in 1991), adjacent to the Academy of Music. The
facility consists of two sections joined in the center by its
Circulation & Course Reserves Desk: on one side, a Reading Room with study space
surrounded by the Reference Collections, adjacent to the circulating
collections; and on the other, a Listening Room with individual carrels and small rooms
with audiovisual monitors. Included, too, are a Music Education
Resources center, a keyboard workstation, and a photocopier.
For a fuller description of the Music Library, annotated Music
Reference Bibliographies, and the Music Library's annual publication,
Reading Room Notes, see the Music Reference Sources pages maintained by
the Music Librarian.
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