Scan and Deliver is the name of a new service offered by the Bodleian Libraries which offers electronic document delivery for items held in closed storage. Instead of requesting these items to a reading room, users can request electronic scans of sections of material (e.g book chapters of journal articles) to be delivered direct to their computer desktop.
The service is available to all the University card holders. Restrictions and charges apply. Further information can be found here.
If you would like to recommend an item for purchase by the Library, please fill in the Bodleian Libraries Resources Request Form.
Please note that it may not be possible to purchase all recommendations, depending on availability and cost.
You can locate books (both print and electronic) held in Oxford University libraries by looking them up on SOLO, Oxford libraries' catalogue, at http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Enter the author's surname and a few significant words from the title. Leave out words like 'the', 'an', 'of' etc
On the main SOLO search screen, click 'All libraries/Collections' and select 'Continuing Education Library' from the dropdown box
For more information on searching SOLO, see the SOLO Guide. There is an additional guide for finding Music materials.
Books of interest to Music students are shelved in the Lower Library under the following classification numbers (Dewey Decimal Classification):
| 780.9 | History of Music | 781.65 | Jazz |
| 780.92 | Music Analysis | 781.71 | Church Music |
| 780.92 | Musicians | 782 | Opera |
| 781 | Music Theory | 782-784 | Songs |
| 781.6 | Rock Music | 784 | Musical Instruments |
| 781.6 | Traditions of Music | 784.2 | Orchestral Music |
| 781.64 | Popular Music | 785 | Chamber Music |
Oversize books are located in the Lower Library (001 – 939) and pamphlets can be found in the Lower Library (001-999).
The following reference books are shelved in the Reading Room, as well as other bibliographies, dictionaries and encyclopaedias:
| Illustrated Dictionary of Music Terms | 780 HEA Q/REF |
| Larousse Encyclopedia of Music | 780.09 LAR Q/REF |
| The Oxford Dictionary of Music | 780 OXF Q/REF |
| The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments | 784.19 OXF Q/REF |
| The New Oxford Companion to Music | 780 OXF Q/REF |
| The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | 780 GRO Q/REF |
A collection of scores is located in the Lower Library and available for loan. The scores are not catalogued and because of this can not be found on SOLO. Readers are welcome to go to the shelves and browse.
Students on award-bearing courses - undergraduate and postgraduate certificate and diploma courses and Masters courses - may use other Oxford University libraries.
For more information on Music collections, see the Music Subject Guide on the Bodleian Libraries website.
The main library collections for Music are:
There may be times when you wish to consult library catalogues beyond Oxford University. This may be because:
The following links may be useful (note that finding an item does not guarantee you access to the library holding it):