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
Clemens Gresser