Jennings Music Library

Hours

Jennings Music Library is open:

• Mondays, 10am - 4pm
• Tuesdays, 10am - 4pm
• Wednesdays, 9am - 6pm
• Thursdays, 10am - 5:30pm
• Fridays, 10am - 4pm

For more information or to make an appointment, you can reach out directly by email to MusicLibrary@bennington.edu.

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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. 

How to Search for Items in Jennings Music Library

You can find items in the following ways:

• Online Catalog
• CDs -- Enter the author, title, or keyword in the search box, and then set the material type scroll to "Music Record".
• Books -- Search by author, title, or subject.
• The Card Catalog -- Located in the grey file drawers behind the front desk.
• LPs -- On the blue cards in the card catalog. Search by either Composer or Subject.
• Scores -- On the White cards in the card catalog. Search by either composer or subject.
• Feel free to ask x4512 for assistance with locating items.

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 24/7 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.

Need Help? 

Feel free to ask x4512 for assistance with locating items.

Jennings Archival Project List

Browse the list of recordings.