Working together in Cambridge: music

Anna PensaertHead of Music

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Clemens GresserDeputy Head of Music

Starting the project

• 2008: General Board Review of Teaching and Learning Support Services

• Working together: developing synergies between the UL’s music department and the Pendlebury Library of Music

• Discussions about options and best way forward

Music pilot

• 3 year pilot project for music collections

• Previous structure: two independent posts

• Head of Music, UL

• Pendlebury Librarian

• New Structure: two related posts, shared between two institutions

• Head of Music

• Deputy Head of Music

Enhancing services

• Maintaining individual strengths

• Developing more coherent and coordinated services:

• Collection development and acquisitions

• Research skills

• User services

• Promoting the collections

• …

Overview – a critical reality check

1. Avoiding each other and meeting each other! Ships…

2. 50% is not 50%...

3. Bi-location, it’s not just “over the road”…

4. 2+3+2 ≠ 7 music librarians

5. Bi-location and technical issues

6. Achievements and “other benefits”

Bi-location and technical issues - Voyager

Spot the difference!

4. Bi-location and technical issues – File storage

• Camtools vs Shared Drive at Pen via VPN

Bi-location and technical issues – web pages

• IP recognition (no updates UL or Pen pages independent from location!) -> can be fixed, but…

• UL -> FTP server & HTML

• Faculty -> WordPress

5. Achievements and “other benefits”

- started in September

- Team of 6:

3 volunteers

3 ft members of staff

- Blogger team from both libraries

Other benefits of the current model

• Knowing both collections -> advise users of one library of benefits of other library

• Coordinate acquisition

-> sometimes duplicate, say, sheet music for practical reasons

-> concentrate on one holding at library for expensive acquisitions (collected editions)

Any questions?

Anna Pensaert

amljp2@cam.ac.uk

Clemens Gresser

cg474@cam.ac.uk