There are no controls on content. It caters to people outside the usual art crowd, and in the case of the multimedia gallery, it is the only available venue for some people to display their work. Oberlin owns one of only a few extant copies of this book on the architecture of organ design in churches throughout Europe. With the improved quality of digital reproduction, we believe it will be well preserved for future research. Another project born of the collaboration is the creation of an electronic reserve listening archive for Music History 101.
Students can plug their headphones into any computer on campus to access the archive.
Similar archives are planned for other courses. It is important that a conservatory explore work and conduct research that is culturally and technically on the bleeding edge.