Thursday, May 15, 2008

Libraries Everywhere!

So I went to the library with me and my group, we met around 1:00 pm. We went inside the first floor and it looked like a museum. The First floor had accessories like audios from back in the day to present day, such as compacts, videos, disks, and DVDs(broadway musicals). They also had library catalogs and resources, listening units for a person who would like to listen to audios that they are interested in. The first floor also consisted music books present time and orchestra collections. It obviously had a source of pc's to look for information with a Gallery of Donald and Mary Oenslager across from it.
The second floor you could see the gallery in a higher view, across from it are music books and sources(closed shelf reference score and books) reference music desk right next to it. There is also a library catalog resource, but with a song index. After thhat there is seating for the public, then music for all types of genres such as classical, jazz, broadway, etc. On the other side there are books on arts, administration, dance, film, drama, and books.
The third floor was really full of security and we had to check in our bags to go inside. This floor had a lot of stuff that was valuable like open shelf reference music books, reference theatre and dance books. They had a viewing of theatre of film and tape, and a room for special collections to read(cornel room). Besides that the room was full of computers to listen or look up information of any subject of the performing arts that you would like to know about. After that we all just went home. My overall experience of going to the library is to me a great discovery because I, as a musician, needed to go buy a peice of music online or something I could just go to that library and copy it. Pretty convenient for me if you ask me!

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