About the Music Library

The Music Department at the University of Buffalo (as it was called at the time) was established in 1951 under the leadership of Cameron Baird. Library support of the department consisted of very meager holdings in the university's main library and the much stronger holdings of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. By the early 1960s, when the State University of New York system took over the private University of Buffalo, the general library contained a few thousand music-related books and scores on its shelves. The Department of Music offered students and faculty a few hundred LPs for use in half a dozen small listening rooms in its own building, Baird Hall.

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