{"id":155,"date":"2016-12-13T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T15:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/rbml\/?p=155"},"modified":"2016-12-20T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:46:03","slug":"the-rita-benton-music-library-a-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/rbml\/2016\/12\/13\/the-rita-benton-music-library-a-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rita Benton Music Library: A Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

2016 was a momentous year for the Rita Benton Music Library at the University of Iowa, largely defined by the move into a beautiful, new facility in the Voxman Music Building eight. Here is our review of the year’s events at the Library, including highlights, predicaments, and a few peculiarities.<\/p>\n

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January<\/h3>\n

The Music Library’s student workers and full time staff separated non-folio scores from folio scores, thereby sorting 90,000 items in preparation for the move into the new library. Non-folio scores are now shelved in mechanical compact shelving, while the folio scores are shelved in open stacks.<\/p>\n

The School of Music’s Center for New Music donated its papers and library of scores to the Music Library in 2013. \u00a0Most of the scores and all of the papers have been processed, but as of January, there were still some loose ends.
\nIn order to organize scores that were separated from parts or otherwise incomplete, the music librarian and catalogers unboxed and sorted over 800 scores in a single day. Many scores from the Center’s collection are now cataloged and available in the stacks (search for “Center for New Music, donor” in InfoHawk+<\/a>).<\/p>\n