The Music Library primarily serves students who major or minor in music or participate in musical ensembles, but anyone from the Bowdoin community is welcome to use the library or listen to sound recordings in the library. LPs and laserdiscs do not circulate. Scores circulate to students for a semester, to faculty for a year, to staff for six months and to outside borrowers for two weeks. CDs circulate to students and staff for 3 days and to faculty for four months.
Videos circulate to students, faculty and staff for twenty-four hours.
CDs and videos do not circulate to outside borrowers. There are three public PCs with access to the Library Gateway, Word Perfect, Music Databases, the Internet and other related programs. Individual listening stations are equipped to handle all formats of sound recordings. Reserves Course reserves are located behind the circulation desk and may be checked out for two hours for in house library use only. They do not circulate out of the library overnight.