Contacts & Collections
Edward Johnson Building
80 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto M5S 2C5 Canada
General enquiries 416.978.3734
Reference desk 416.978.1028
Fax number 416.946.3353
| Librarians |
Responsibilities |
Room |
Telephone |
| Kathleen McMorrow |
Librarian, administration and collection development |
E23 |
416.978.6920 |
| Suzanne Meyers Sawa |
Assistant Librarian, reference, library instruction, and donations |
E22 |
416.978.1479 |
| James Mason |
Technical services Librarian, media |
E21 |
416.978.4269 |
| Jan MacLean |
Circulation |
E27 |
416.978.3739 |
| Karen Wiseman |
Performance Collection |
E016 |
416.978.0575 |
The largest music research collection in Canada is located in the Edward Johnson Building, in a newer wing accessible from the main lobby. It is part of the University of Toronto Library System, with a history going back to the late nineteenth century. The Music Library supports teaching, research and performance in the Faculty of Music, and the study and enjoyment of music by the entire university community.
The UTL CATALOGUE includes:
The Music Library printed collections, over 300,000 books, scores, periodicals and microforms.
The Sniderman Recordings Collection, 180,000 sound recordings, from cylinders to blu-ray.
The Olnick Rare Book Room, 2,500 volumes exemplifying the history of music and of music editing, performance and printing -- from liturgical manuscripts and early printed treatises, to first editions of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Gershwin, and early Canadian sheet music and tune books. A significant number of 18th- and 19th-century opera full scores, with particular strength in the French repertoire, complements the large libretto holdings of the Central Library.
Online audio, video, scores, and electronic journals and other research resources.
Special Collections CATALOGUES:
Archival Collections document the creative activity of composers and performers associated with the University and the city. The collections include manuscripts, correspondence, programs, photographs and recordings of artists such as John Beckwith, Talivaldis Kenins, Udo Kasemets, the Hart House String Quartet and Kathleen Parlow.
Sheet Music and Choral Octavo includes about 50,000 items: songs, piano pieces and method books in sheet music format, mostly issued 1800-1950, plus a browsing collection of choral octavo stored in binders by category: mixed voices, unison voices, women's voices, men's voices, Christmas music, and folk music.
The Performance Collection supports the programs of the Faculty's major ensembles, with choral music in multiple copies, and sets of parts for jazz ensembles , band, and orchestra. There are currently about 3500 titles: new material is purchased or rented when required for performances.
LP / vinyl discs catalogued since 1995. Records catalogued before that are represented in the card catalogue.
Faculty Events Streaming audio is available for listening within the Music Library, for concerts and other events from 2001 to the present. The collection is still under development for earlier events.