The Cook Music Library, recognized as one of the largest academic music libraries in the world, serves the world-renowned Jacobs School of Music and Bloomington Campus of Indiana University. The collection is comprised of well over 600,000 items.
Working with the staff from IU's Digital Library Program, the Cook Music Library is an international leader in the development of digital music libraries. Since 1996 IU students have listened to digitized audio via the Variations system. Now using Variations2, student have access to more than 14,000 complete recordings and a growing collection of digitized scores.
Did you know...
as part of work begun in the Digital Audio Archive Project, an Audio Preservation Engineer with expertise in the handling of audio tape was hired, and a high quality audio preservation lab was equipped? Work is well underway to preserve the approximately 60,000 recordings found in the Archive of the Jacobs School of Music.
Hear an example of this work, narrated by Mike Bridavsky, our Audio Preservation Engineer.
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