{"id":2197,"date":"2019-09-09T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/?page_id=2197"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:13:42","slug":"gift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Acceptance Policy- Circulating Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The acceptance of gift materials (gifts-in-kind) in whatever format\u2014scores, recordings, books, journals, etc.\u2014for the circulating collections of Sibley Music Library is at the discretion of the Head Librarian, or the Head of Acquisitions and Serials. We cannot accept any materials that have not been discussed in advance with the Head Librarian, or the Head of Acquisitions and Serials. (See the webpage of the Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections Department<\/a> for a separate gift acceptance policy<\/a> for that department of Sibley Music Library.)<\/p>\n

We will add gift materials to the collections only when, in our judgment, there is likely to be a clear benefit to current and future Eastman School of Music students and faculty, who are the primary users of the Sibley Music Library. Similarly, we evaluate potential gifts in light of the curricula of the Eastman School of Music, and accept gifts only when, in our judgment, such gift materials will play a role in supporting the curricula of the Eastman School of Music.<\/p>\n

Constraints of space and staff time normally prohibit accepting entire<\/em> gift collections, for that action often results in accepting items that duplicate<\/em> existing holdings. Rather, we require a full inventory of the items being offered (at minimum: composer\/performer\/author, title, publisher, and date of publication). If we accept such a list for bibliographic searching against our holdings, we will identify to the prospective donor those items that we deem useful to the Sibley Music Library collections, and we would accept only those items as gifts.<\/p>\n

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