They're closing the Music Li-ber-ee

The Australian National University is planning to merge the Music School library with the Arts School library. Both libraries are already full, so there won't be space to house both collections. Something will have to go.

Unlike some other libraries, the resources are not available on line, and most won't be for decades to come. Many recordings on vinyl, most old scores, and countless gigantic art folios won't be digitised any time soon.

Without this material, our creative people will be starved of input, and we'll end up with third-rate music and third-rate art. Don't we get enough of that already?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ANU-Music-Art-School-Libraries/101631686584779?...

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[Axyfication]

That's correct. We recieved the proposal from the VC on the fourth of May, with his office expecting us to reply by the 25th of May. We replied on the 20th of May.

[Axyfication]

@CreativeCanberran I'm not sure where you get your information from. We did respond, in mid-May.

[MsAnyacatanya]

Curiously, the ANU have just announced they want to become one of the elite research institutions in the world. I'm not sure closing down yet another faculty library and getting rid of more specialist research material and staff is going to help them achieve this. Maybe the library could move into the Fitter's Workshop? - ho ho.

[MusicManInSC]

Very BAD move. And that's from someone sitting over in the United States!