The Library of the "Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra" in Rome

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The Library of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music is a service of educational activities, liturgical and Research Institute. The initial core of the collections has been steadily increased over time in order to respond appropriately to both the internal and teaching needs of scholars from outside are turning to the PIMS for their research and artistic music, musicology, liturgy and history. The Library preserves and provides access to different types of documents, from the library to those sounds, from photographic reproductions of musical and audiovisual sources.
In relation to its function as a school library, a significant section of the library consists of the assigned readings for the preparation of examination, essays and exercises Studiorum music provided by the Horde.

I cared more subject areas - in accordance with the themes of the courses set up at PIMS - are Gregorian chant and liturgical music, choral music, composition sacred liturgy, musicology, music history and the Church. Over the past year the Library has seen his role increase dramatically within the Institute: it was reorganized the reading room, which currently occupies the spacious rooms where he worked for the Commission the text of the Neo-Vulgate, and was organized a series of presentations of books related to sacred music.
In parallel, work began the automation of the catalog (both in terms of new acquisitions and for what concerns the partial recovery of prior learning material) and was set up a local network of personal computers, which allows querying the data base Bibliographic this from a location in the reading room.

In addition to the usual author and subject catalogs, are being implemented for those musical forms and organic vocal and instrumental music necessary for the execution of the works: you can thus select the musical compositions in the library, also based on these elements, facilitating the search for works that meet certain technical and / or formal.



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