The Library of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” is an auxiliary teaching department directly involved in learning, training, documentation, and research activities. Its role is to provide the academic community with extensive, high-quality, and up-to-date information resources. The lending centre offers access to the collections available in the reading room, guidance and consultancy provided by librarians, as well as short-term and long-term lending services.
Library Collections
The constant interest in enriching the collections has resulted in a library fund comprising over 150,000 items, including books, scores, and periodicals, catalogued in both traditional and computerized systems, organized into specific sections according to an internal classification scheme.
The book collection includes reference and documentary materials such as dictionaries, lexicons, biographies, musical analyses, folklore collections, critical studies, syntheses, and old treatises in musicology and composition. It also includes doctoral theses, scientific papers, course materials authored by Academy staff, as well as works on musical methodology, pedagogy, and psychology. Initially conceived as an encyclopedic entity, the NAMGD Library also holds fiction, art albums, and studies in aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy.
Sheet music represents approximately 60% of the total collection and includes works for orchestra, solo instruments, chamber music ensembles, vocal, choral, and vocal-symphonic works, in both full scores and reductions, as well as orchestral parts. Alongside international repertoire and complete works collections, the library provides extensive access to Romanian music scores.
The periodicals collection, developed over several decades, includes significant Romanian and international music journals. Access to international journals is also provided through subscriptions to major academic platforms such as Cambridge Journals, Oxford Journals, RILM, JSTOR, and EBSCO.
Library Users
Internal users (students, teaching staff, and NAMGD employees) benefit from free access to all library resources. External users are charged a fee depending on the selected subscription.
The Library in the Virtual Space
The NAMGD Library software allows users to consult the online catalogue, manage loans and returns, and access the library’s databases.
Active users may create an account on the library platform to track loans and gain mobile access to JSTOR and Cambridge Journals.
The library provides institutional and mobile access to several music databases: JSTOR, Oxford Music Online, Cambridge Journals, Oxford Journals, RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), Music Index with Full Text, Alexander Street: Dance and Music Scores.
Since 2022, the Library has also provided access to the NAMGD Digital Library via the Omeka platform, offering electronic materials available for viewing and downloading through personal accounts.
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Library Opening Hours
The opening hours of the lending desk and the reading room are as follows*:
During teaching periods and examination sessions:
- Monday–Friday: 8:00–19:00
- Saturday: 8:00–12:00
During holidays:
- Monday–Friday: 8:00–13:00
- Saturday: Closed
*The schedule may change depending on teaching and study needs.
For information regarding the availability of materials, we invite you to consult the library’s online catalog. When requesting documents at the lending desk, it is necessary to provide the exact sections and call numbers (List of sections / contents). Unique copies and documentary items (D) are lent under a special procedure determined by the librarian.
For efficient searching, we encourage you to follow the Online Search Guide available on the library’s platform.
We warmly welcome you to the NAMGD Library and wish you all much success!