IU Cook Music Library: Fact Sheet

Facility

• Dedicated November 1995. Occupied January 1996. Architect: CRSS of Houston
• William Cook: Founder of Cook, Inc., world's largest privately-held medical technology company
• 55,000 square feet on 4 floors (3 public, 1 staff-only) ; seating for 375
• Features: automated mobile compact shelving in closed and selected open stack areas; 3 seminar rooms (one w/24 seats, two w/12 seats) each with piano, computer workstation, audio/video playback equipment; self-serve open reserve system; computing instruction classroom (30 workstations w/MIDI keyboards); fire-resistant vault storage room with separately controlled/monitored HVAC system; conservation laboratory (to be furnished); soundproof distance-learning/ recording studio; employee lounge with kitchen.

Cataloged volumes/items on 10.5 miles of shelves (July 2007)

Current periodical subscriptions (journals, annuals, biennials): 532

• 6 Librarians (director, collection development, reference (1), cataloging (3)).
• 2.5 Professional Staff (user services, acquisitions, digital technology).
• 7.5 FTE Support Staff (user services (3.5), cataloging (2), administration/acquisitions (1), ensembles collection supervisor (1))
• 10.5 (ca.) FTE student assistants.

Music Library distributed computing cluster (public workstations: link to equipment specifications, applications, locations)

VARIATIONS

• Playback server: IBM RS/6000 H80 system with 130 GB of SCSI hard disk storage, running IBM VideoCharger streaming media server software.
  • Connected by a 100 megabit/second Ethernet link, using locally developed software, to:
• Archive server: IBM RS/6000 H80 system running Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software, attached to an IBM 3494 Tape Library DataServer containing 3 IBM Magstar 3590 tape drives (400 tape cartridge slots, each tape cartridge holding up to 20 GB of data): Total capacity of 8 TB, or potentially over 36,000 hours of compressed audio.
• Gigabit Ethernet connection between VARIATIONS servers at Wrubel Computing Center and Music Library.

A-V equipment