The Sound Library

The Sound Library is an organ­i­sa­tional unit of the FCUM Main Library.
A new Sound Library Lab­o­ra­tory, the archival record­ing recon­struc­tion lab­o­ra­tory, began to oper­ate a year ago. Thanks to this lab­o­ra­tory we hope to archive our most pre­cious col­lec­tions on dig­i­tal car­ri­ers. The Sound Lab­o­ra­tory col­lects music in the fol­low­ing forms:

• ana­logue records, col­lected since 1960 — the col­lec­tion now num­bers 13220 records (the most valu­able one’s will grad­u­ally be recon­structed and archived on dig­i­tal carriers);
• stu­dio record­ings pro­duced by the Sound Library — the col­lec­tion now num­bers about 1600 items (these record­ings are being grad­u­ally recon­structed and archived on dig­i­tal carriers);
• doc­u­men­tary tape-recordings of con­certs which have been given at the FCUM since 1964 — the col­lec­tion now num­bers about 1300 items;
• com­pact discs (CDs) — of which there are now 6570; the col­lec­tion is con­tin­u­ally being enlarged;
• DVD discs — there are cur­rently 220 and the col­lec­tion is con­tin­u­ally being enlarged;
• doc­u­men­ta­tion of con­certs at the FCUM, reg­is­tered on CDs since 1996 — the col­lec­tion now num­bers 1140 items;
• doc­u­men­ta­tion of music com­pe­ti­tions at the FCUM — the col­lec­tion now num­bers 182 items;
• other record­ings (music tests, occa­sional record­ings, CD copies, audio cas­settes, video cas­settes, record­ings of pop­u­lar music, other).

The FCUM Sound Library col­lec­tion is cat­a­logued on index cards.
Only FCUM stu­dents, fac­ulty and employ­ees have access to the Sound Library col­lec­tions. Stu­dents can lis­ten to selected pieces in one of four cab­ins. They can also record selected frag­ments on audio cas­settes (the cab­ins are equipped with a cas­sette tape recorder, ampli­fier and loud­speak­ers).
The Sound Library does not lend any mate­ri­als off the FCUM premises and does not make any copies of its col­lec­tions.

Sound Lab­o­ra­tory Staff:
Lidia Zimak MA — Head of the Sound Library, e-mail: lidiaz@chopin.edu.pl
Bar­bara Bed­narska MA — Recon­struc­tion Lab­o­ra­tory
Alek­san­dra Drogosz-Szymańska MA
Emilia Dud­kiewicz MA
Tomasz Jagłowski MA
Bar­bara Kuk­lińska MA

Room 112, tel. (0 22) 827 72 41 ext. 261