What do academic music librarians do? There’s never a typical day. Today, I’ve catalogued a shiny new series of Paris Conservatoire competition anthologies for various instruments; am working my way through three shelves of wind and brass sets in order to improve the accessibility of the big band charts that lurk amongst them; and have had a conversation (email and phone) about Scottish plainsong, with a scholarly enquirer. And there’s time for more variety yet! Meanwhile – back to the jazz charts … ‘accessibility’ is my middle name.

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