Music 112: Introduction to Musicianship

You'll have lots of opportunities to learn about using the St. Olaf College Libraries, especially in your FYS 120 and WRIT 120 classes.

I designed the video tutorials in this guide specifically to welcome you to the Music Library and to demonstrate how to use our online catalog, called Catalyst, to find music materials.

Please watch the videos and then get started on your Scavenger Hunt!

Halvorson Music Library houses the music-based materials in the St. Olaf library system. These include 25,000 scores, 17,000 AV recordings (both video and audio), 18,000 books about music, music periodicals, and reference resources. Computers and listening/viewing stations are available for use, and a group study room contains video, audio, and computer capabilities. We also subscribe to almost ten million tracks of streamed audio!

Watch the video below for a quick introduction to Halvorson and the people who work here!

The Libraries' homepage is more than just a search box. This video introduces my top three buttons to click to make the most of the Libraries' services!

As a musician, you'll probably want to look at musical scores! It can be tricky to get Catalyst to show you scores instead of books. This video demonstrates how to use filters to tell Catalyst what formats you want.

Once you've used Catalyst to find a book or score you want, you need to read the call number to find it on our shelves. This video explains how the call numbers work and how to match them to an item.