Resources

DRAM (initially an acronym for Database of Recorded American Music, a name which has since become insufficient to describe DRAM’s contents) is a streaming audio service accessible to VU faculty, students and staff on or off campus. DRAM features music ranging from folk to opera, Native American to… Read More

The library currently has trial access for the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collections, Series I and II. For more details, please visit the ETrials Blog.  Trial ends June 30, 2010. http://weblog.library.vanderbilt.edu/etrials/… Read More

The OECD iLibrary is now available to library patrons.  This resource is OECD’s gateway to full-text books (including annuals and outlooks), journals, working papers and statistics.  It can be found by searching Acorn, DiscoverLibrary or in the list of Heard Library Research Databases at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/heard/artdb.shtml. Read More

The International Monetary Fund e-Library is now available to library patrons.  The IMF e-Library contains information and statistics published about IMF and member countries.  The link to this resource can be found by searching Acorn, DiscoverLibrary or in the list of Heard Library Research Databases at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/heard/artdb.shtml. Read More

Users can now dynamically generate a list of new items that have been purchased and cataloged for the Music Library. Lists can be created by library type (Music) and time period when the materials were added to ACORN (past 24 hours, past 3 days, past week, past 2 weeks or… Read More

D&B Million Dollar Database provides brief information on 15 million private and public U.S. companies and 8 million international companies.  The directory information includes: address, sales, number of employees. industry classification (SIC and NAICS), type of ownership, and names of chief executives.  You can generate lists of companies meeting specific… Read More

The latest volume of the Orchestra Musician’s CD-ROM Library, Wagner : Part 1, is now available. It contains the complete orchestral parts to Wagner’s Symphony in C Major, A Faust Overture, Rienzi Overture, the Wesendonck Songs, the Siegfried Idyll, the American Centennial March, and four early operas (Der fliegende Holländer,… Read More

The Music Library’s Seminar Room can be reserved for faculty instruction or for group study by students. To reserve the room, go to http://lib1a.library.vanderbilt.edu/calendar/syswidecalsnew.htm.View the calendar to see open times to reserve, then click “Add Event”. The Seminar Room has listening/viewing equipment, a piano, a white board, and… Read More

Over the summer, the Music Library purchased the deluxe color facsimile of the Bologna Q 15 manuscript which is the largest international anthology of polyphonic music (masses and motets) of the early 15th century. It was compiled in the Veneto, in Padua in the early 1420s (stage I)… Read More

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, edited by Colin Larkin is now available on the Music Library’s web page. This resource is one of many titles that are offered through Oxford Reference Online, a package of electronic reference books that include the Oxford Companion to Music, Concise Oxford… Read More