Jennings Music Library
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Hours
Jennings Music Library Hours During Term
Monday-Friday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
About Jennings Music Library
The Music Library holds approximately 18,000 items including books, scores, periodicals and music recordings.
Jennings Archival Music Project: Archival CDs from close to 1000 reels, of musical performances at Bennington College from 1950–1985. Find these items in the catalog.
Music Department Performances: Programs, posters, and even some recordings from the past 50 years of concerts at Bennington College are accessible in our archive. You can browse or search through the collection here: Bennington's Digital Archive.
Jennings Music Library Layout
Books and Recordings
The Front Room
- CDS: In the large drawers by the bay window area.
- Reference Books: On the mantle and bookcase, adjacent to the circulation desk.
- DVD & Videos: In the locking files by the windows.
- Bennington College Recordings (including the Archive CD Collection): On top of the Card Catalog (from 2005-present), and in front of the windows.
- Periodicals: Located on the magazine racks.
- Faculty Reserves
- Recordings of Student Work (i.e. Class Compositions, Music Workshops, Recitals, Senior Concerts).
- All other recent works are organized in date order on top of the card catalog.
- Concerts and Workshops: Earlier dates are located in the small grey file drawers by the windows.
- Circulating Books: On the front large shelves.
The Middle Room
- Circulating books with the call numbers NA-TK.
Score Locations
All scores are in alphabetical order by composer within a section (starting with Collections/Anthologies, then organized A-Z).
The Front Room
- Miniature Study Scores: Next to the front closet.
- Fake Books, Real Books, Show Tunes, Rock, and some Folk
The Middle Room
- Instrumental Music (such as Piano, Strings, Winds, Brass, Percussion, Chamber Ensembles, Oversized Scores, Libretti, Hymnals).
Listening Room (3rd Room)
- Full-Sized Orchestral Scores (scores with all parts) -- In large green file boxes. The full sized study scores are on the large bookcase.
- Vocal Scores (Including voice with piano, A Cappella, Voice with Instruments, Choral Music, Vocal Methods)
- Opera -- In the large white bookcase.
- LPS -- Vinyl collection in numerical order, and Jazz reference collection, alphabetical by performer, and reference box sets.
The Sanctuary (4th Room)
- Open as a cozy study space. Access via next to Room 101 when the library is closed
- Extra listening space with CD recorder.
- Back issues of Periodicals and Analog Archives.
Jennings Archival Project List
Browse the list of recordings.