Therefore a large portion of the library s resources is devoted to so-called research materials collected editions, microforms, facsimile editions, books, and journals. The part of the collection having to do with music and dance is housed in the Gorno Memorial Music Library on the 4th floor of the Carl Blegen Library. This includes sound recordings and video materials, as well as the traditional books, scores, journals, and microforms. Materials having to do with theatre and drama are, likewise, not in the CCM Library but are found mainly in Langsam Library and the DAAP Library. These two private institutions merged in 1955, and, in 1961, became one of the component colleges of the University.
Little information exists regarding the libraries of the two original professional schools.
In 1967, when Mary Emery Hall and Corbett Auditorium were constructed as a home for CCM on the University campus, the Library was firmly established as a significant entity supporting the performance and research programs. Until that time, the collection consisted of a few basic reference tools, histories, collected editions and miscellaneous, unbound performance scores. In 1968, systematic retrospective collection development programs were put in place, and, a few years later, score approval plans were established with vendors to supply the CCM Library with currently published music scores. As a result, a small collection of fewer than 5,000 cataloged volumes in 1968 has grown to a respectable collection of nearly 140,000 volumes in 2000. When the theatre and drama programs were assimilated by CCM in the 1980s, it was decided that, since library materials pertaining to these programs had historically been housed in the Langsam Library, and the budget and selection of materials had been assigned to a separate bibliographer in Langsam, this practice would continue.