Knight Library
Music Library Services
Leslie Bennett, Librarian

The Knight Library's Music Services Department includes complete works, periodicals, recordings, and a large collection of books and scores. The music collection is supported by gifts from Phi Beta and Mu Phi Epsilon and a bequest from the late Matthew H. Douglass, former university librarian. Through acquisitions under the Farmington Plan, the library has a particularly strong and growing collection of contemporary international books on music.

The University of Oregon Knight Library Music Services department houses the collections of music books, scores, and recordings for the School of Music. With more than two million volumes in the library, it is the largest in the state. Included are the collected editions of virtually all major composers, the Denkmaeler Deutscher Tonkunst and other Denkmaeler collections, Nagel's Musikarchive, Hortus Musicus, and many similar collections.

The Library belongs to the Center for Research Libraries, and is a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the OCLC cataloging consortium. These associations make millions of publications available. Special music approval plans provide the library with the latest scores from Europe and North America. The record and compact disc collection is strong in music of women composers as well as jazz and classical music. Of special interest to scholars is the sheet music collection, which consists of more than 20,000 pieces of decorative and popular music.