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Discovery Catalog

The Discovery search allows you to search across the library's collections and includes:

Music, books, e-books, recordings, and streamed commercial and concert recordings owned by New England Conservatory.

Research databases like Academic One, Grove Music Online, Music Index, Naxos, Google Scholar, Britannica Encyclopedia, etc.

E-journal collections like JSTOR.

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Classic Catalog

 

New England Conservatory shares a catalog database with other local schools through the Fenway Library Organization.

You may use your NEC ID to borrow materials from all FLO libraries, in addition to the NEC library.

 

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Blumenthal Family Library Hours

Spring Break Hours:

Regular hours through Friday, March 17.

Saturday, 3/189:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, 3/19Closed
Monday, 3/209:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, 3/219:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 3/229:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, 3/239:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 3/249:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, 3/259:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, 3/26Closed

Regular hours resume Monday, 3/27.

 

Regular Hours:

Monday:9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday:9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Thursday:9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Friday:9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday:9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday:1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

 

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Grove Music Online

Music Index with Full Text

Naxos Music Library

RILM Abstracts with Full Text

A-Z Guide to Library Databases & Reference Sources

Music Resources for Remote Access, Teaching, and Entertainment


FAQs

Check out our latest LibGuides for Opera Research, and Music Learning Technologies, created by Patrick Quinn, our new Research and Instruction Librarian.

 

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