Library & Archive

Library

The library serves the information and documentation needs of the center’s educational community and offers a place for study and consultation.

Location: Classroom 5 L

Collection: The library houses a collection of approximately 10,000 scores and 3,000 monographs.

Access is restricted to students and teachers of the School, and researchers and interested parties occasionally have access by prior arrangement.

Equipment: It has 3 individual workstations with computers, from which you can access the library catalog and the audiovisual content platform, reserve booths and make all kinds of queries.

The library has a printer and photocopier available to students, located on the sixth floor.

Hours:

Monday to Thursday

Friday

It is closed during non-teaching periods (Christmas, Easter and the months of July and August). Access is restricted to students and teachers of the School, and researchers and interested parties occasionally have access by prior arrangement.

Collection and holdings

The library has a collection specializing in music:

10.260 Scores

5.000 Monographs

Books, magazines, dictionaries and reference works

Digitized institutional collections

Access to digital platforms for scores and academic resources

What the Library Offers

Services

Loan
All students and faculty of the School may borrow materials. Materials must be requested two days in advance, either in person or by sending an email to biblioteca@albeniz.com. The loan period is 15 days and a maximum of 6 documents may be borrowed at a time. Reference works, out-of-print or valuable books and scores, as well as academic concerts or concert series, are excluded from loan.
Reservation
If a work is already on loan, users can reserve it and will automatically be added to a waiting list. Each user can have up to 6 active reservations. Once available, there are 5 days to collect the reserved material. After this period, the reservation will be canceled.
In-house consultation
Space equipped with three workstations for the study and direct consultation of library holdings.
Bibliographic advice
Personalized guidance in the search for information, both in the own database and in catalogs of other libraries, in addition to support in the use of the available equipment.
User training
- Annual introductory session for new students, with explanation of resources and services.
- Specific training at the request of students (use of specific databases, catalog search, etc.).
Reprography and printing
Copying, printing and scanning service of documents according to current regulations. Photocopier located on the sixth floor

Catalog

Online Catalog
Consultation of the catalog and the library database through this https://albeniz.janium.net. Access requires institutional username and password.
Digital Library
Digitized scores from the library’s collection. Only accessible from the library computers, at this link Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. Área Restringida. using username and password.

Acquisitions

Students can request material needed for concerts or assignments. Requests will be evaluated by the Dean and faculty.

Online request: through the catalog, “Requests” tab within the user area
In-person request: by form in the library.
Request by email: by sending an email to biblioteca@albeniz.com

Platforms and Specialized Resources

Henle Library
Access to more than 1,000 urtext scores in digital format from the Henle publishing house.
- Available as an application for iOS and Android (allows annotations and PDF download).
- Also accessible via web (visualization only).
- Compatible with iPads, iPhones, Mac, Android and Chromebooks.
Newzik
Score management and reading platform used in the School’s projects (Choir, Orchestra, Sinfonietta, Camerata, HIP, etc.).
Students access with username (Name and surname) and password
Digital Resources
- The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Access here
- JSTOR: Multidisciplinary database of full-text academic journals. Access here
- Journal subscription: Opera Now, Gramophone and Classical Music.
- Additional subscription to The Strad and Scherzo (require username and password, available upon request).

Audiovisual Content

The Library’s consultation stations also offer students a service through the Videoma tool for consulting and downloading (where possible) the recorded videos by the School.

From Videoma you can access all the concerts of the Sony Auditorium and the master classes that have been authorized to be recorded, and that during the course are added to the catalog, which contains a large repository of concerts and historical classes. In addition, it contains recordings not made directly at the School, such as the orchestral opening and closing concerts.

Regulations

Charter of rights and duties
- Rights: Access to resources, consultation and loan, suggestions for acquisitions, confidentiality, personalized attention.
- Duties: Care of spaces and resources, respect for the study environment, compliance with staff instructions.
Donation acceptance policy

The Library of the Reina Sofía School of Music has formed a large part of its collection thanks to the generous donations and transfers of people and entities, who have contributed books, magazines, records, scores and other materials (such as the Luis Galve or Luis del Llano Collection, among others).

This protocol aims to ensure that everything added to the catalog is in line with the Library’s growth policy and that the same criteria are applied when accepting any donation.

All donations of documents in good condition will be accepted, which are of interest for teaching and research carried out at the School.

Documents that fall under the following assumptions are not accepted:

- - Duplicate documents, already existing in the library’s collection
  - Documents in obsolete formats (VHS, beta, diskettes, cassettes, vinyl records, CDs, etc.).
  - Incomplete documents
  - Documents in which the cost of transfer exceeds and/or is not proportional to the value of the donation.