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Under the tutorial system the Music Department is trying to give undergraduates a perspective of the history of music as a whole. Picture the plight of the poor student who goes to find some fifteenth century music. He finds that he must content himself with only two collections: early Bodleian music and the Drukmaeler series, good as these may be. Still undismayed, he decides to look over the century when chamber music and opera first flowered--from 1600 to 1700. It is a slight shock to find that the shelves are quite innocent of most of such music, in spite...
...Craster, Bodley's Librarian from the Bodleian Library at Oxford, will be in Cambridge today to inspect the Widener Library. Additions and repairs are to be made ou the Bodley Library, and Mr. Craster has come to the United States to study the construction of numerous American libraries and gain some worthwhile ideas to take back to England...
...items in the Tower collection is the "Hudson's Bay Proclamation", issued in 1688 by King James the Second, restricting trade in the Hudson Bay area to members of the Hudson's Bay Company. Only three other copies are known to exist. These are at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the Public Record Office in London, and the Harvard copy is the only known copy in America. The proclamation is in the form of a large folio broadside, printed in black letter...
...From a painting by Philip de Laszlo, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford...
Since most university librarians feel that their needs are never very lavishly attended to, they must rely, for anything more than bare necessities, upon outside gifts. Oxford University has its Friends of the Bodleian Library, founded by the late Sir William Osier, who was curator of that most scholarly of English-speaking collegiate libraries. To Harvard has come $216,742 in gifts through its Friends of the Library, founded in 1925 by a group of alumni at a dinner in honor of the late Archibald Gary Coolidge, then Harvard librarian. The Friends of the Columbia Library, formed...