Unique material such as wax cylinders and 78 rpm records are included in the collections, which include printed and non-print materials and can be searched online. The collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral history and wildlife sounds. The Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters and photographs. The RISM WWW Home Page provides news and reports on RISM activities throughout the world, describes the various printed and online resources made available by the Zentralredaktion and the U.S. RISM Office, and can help you gain access to them. The online library catalogue of the Royal Northern College of Music, which allows its holdings to be searched.
Material includes archives, audiovisual resources, books and printed music.
The collection of manuscript music amounts to some 12,000 volumes, containing over 100,000 single items. The online version of the British Library's public catalogue. Includes the Catalogue of Printed Music to 1980 and the Current Music Catalogue, providing access to catalogues of the entire printed music reference collection in the British Library. It currently houses extensive collections of manuscript and printed music, books on a wide range of subjects, sound and video recordings, photographs, and archives of letters, ephemera and papers of organizations with which Britten and Pears were closely associated. An electronic catalogue of holdings catalogued to date is available for searching on-line.