Finding New Music

MSPAL has the largest collection of music scores among the University System of Maryland and Assocciated Institution (USMAI) libraries. Anyone with a current USMAI borrower card may borrow circulating scores.

Cataloged scores in MSPAL are in these locations:

• Floor 1
  • Reference desk
  • Course reserves (ask at desk)
  • Lowens Room, open shelves
  • Lowens Room, rare stacks (ask at desk)
• Floor 2
  • Miniature scores
  • Folio
  • Oversize (ask at desk; now located in Severns Library)

On the UMD Libraries' homepage, search for your score by composer, title, genre, or instrument, then use the format limits along the left side of the screen to restrict your results to scores.