The British Library can also help See 
http://www.bl.uk/services/document/music.html For details

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Dear All,
	Thank you to everyone who responded to my plea for sources of 
information for music interlending. This is a summary of the details 
everyone has sent me.



The National Library of Scotland have a particularly useful set of pages

on music interlending and I would recommend that anyone searching for 
music ILL material should have a browse.

http://www.nls.uk/professional/interlibraryservices/services/music_inter
lending.html

The pages contain useful information on:
* details you need from your reader.
* provides a useful glossary of music terms for the uninitiated.
* gives details about hire only material
* has useful links to online databases for music material (see below)
* has a useful list of printed resources you might use to trace material
* links to Scottish and English libraries involved with music
interlending


Online databases: 
http://www.nls.uk/professional/interlibraryservices/services/ill_music_r
esources.html#online

Other than the usual suspects, COPAC, WorldCat, Unity and Encore (an 
orchestral set and vocal score catalogue) are the following which I had 
not come across.

Cecilia database - database of music collections. After a quick look it 
appears to be mainly special collections, but does allow you to see who 
specializes in what. Mainly for reference info rather than ILL.

www.cecilia-uk.org


Gerontius.net  - database of vocal scores/ orchestral sets for hire. 
Seems to specialize in lending between music societies (not necessarily 
ILL).  Like Encore it is useful in that it provides an idea of how many 
copies each library has - essential when you are trying to borrow a 
specific number of vocal scores.

www.gerontius.net/findscores.shtml




The National Library of Scotland has a page of links to libraries who 
are involved with lending music which is especially helpful:-

http://www.nls.uk/professional/interlibraryservices/services/music_lendi
ng_libraries.html


The page contains links to the catalogues and a brief note saying 
whether the library supplies via ILL, commercially or whether they are 
reference only. I suspect that I will be making use of this page in
future!





Libraries North West also has a set of pages on music interlending.

http://www.lnw.org.uk/bu/music/musicintro.asp

Their page on searching library OPACS for Music and Drama material has 
links to a number of North West public and Academic library catalogues 
and a list of other places to try. Each library entry lists the search 
options available. This is also useful for librarians looking for drama 
material.





Thank you to Jonathan Saksena of the Lancashire County Library for the 
following list of on-line catalogues:

Barbican Music Library - sheet music
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/barbican_songs/searchPage.aspx

University of Central England Birmingham
http://bitalis.uce.ac.uk/TalisPrism/index.jsp

Choral Public Domain Library - free downloadable copies of choral sheet 
music
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Manchester City Council - Printed music search
http://catalogue.manchester.gov.uk/cgi-bin/smusic2.sh?group=SMUSIC&sessi
on_no=78432

Royal Academy of Music http://www.ram.ac.uk/facilities/index.html

Royal College of Music
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/main.asp?display=Library_and_Collections/Library/Ca
talogues&link=*

Royal Northern College of Music
http://www.rncm.ac.uk/Place%20to%20Study/Library/

Royal Scottish Academy of Music
http://libcat.rsamd.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/3PiBVTYkYV/0/0/49




Other individual library catalogues that were suggested (not mentioned 
in other lists)

Senate House Library University of London (not all music holdings are on

COPAC)    http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk

Royal Holloway     http://libserv2.rhul.ac.uk/F?RN=273860907

Trinity College of Music (London) 
http://www.tcm.ac.uk/IsolatedStorage/0611fdd3-c173-476f-9a3d-95b1ade3819
4/RenderSystem/Gateway/Core/RVEcb32141a11a34d11898479a8fb64b631,,.aspx

Colchester Institute (CC/C1 email to [log in to unmask])
http://webview.colchester.ac.uk/olibcgi/ntxcgi.exe/



And for those requests which you really, really can't trace Jenny Brine 
suggested joining the iaml-uk-irl mailing list which is a jiscmail list 
(like lis-ill) used by music librarians to appeal for locations for 
hard-to-find material.



By the time you've checked all these then you can safely say that you've

done your best!


Judith Walton,
Document Delivery Service,
Durham University

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