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Music: Recordings

This page is a selective guide to assist Music students with locating initial resources

Locations of Recordings at Indiana State University

Locations:

  • Music Recordings at ISU are divided between:  Cunningham Library Browsing Collections, Cunningham Library Main stacks, and the  NON-CIRCULATINGISU Music Listening Library collection, previously in the Fine Arts building and now on the 3rd floor of the Library.  As you conduct searches, pay attention to the Location and Call numbers.  This will clue you into location.

Reading Call Numbers Between Collections:

  • Cunningham Library Browsing Call Numbers appear as:   Audio M 1630.18 Earle T
  • ISU Music Listening Library Call Numbers appear as:  ISU Music Listening Library (CD8457).   This denotes between LPs and CDs within their collections.  [7-9-19: this information is being updated] 
  • Some recordings may appear in Library Stacks.  They will use Library of Congress call numbers such as:  M 23 .A53

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Searching for Music Recordings

Searching for specific music recordings if you know the tricks of the catalog.

 For example, in the Fusion + catalog, you can select Keyword searching and then select more options such as:

  • Location [e.g., Main Library, ISU Browsing Collection, ISU Music Listening Library]
  • Material Type [eg, Sound Record, Projected Medium]

The Fusion catalog allows you to search for CD material type from the libray homepage.  You can also perform searches within Fusion and limit to: Sound Record or Projected Medium

    Fusion & Fusion +

Use the Fusion Plus catalog as your first option for locating books, scores, microfilms, journal titles (but NOT articles), sound recordings, and videos owned by Indiana State University, as well as Web-based resources that are accessible via the catalog (electronic books and journals, databases).