Are you interested in music?

The sound library contains a vast selection of CDs ranging from classical music from the Middle Ages right up to contemporary sounds, along with jazz, world music, film soundtracks and French songs.
More than 20,000 audio CDs are classified by genre in the public area. Part of the collection (10,000 CDs) is stocked in the closed shelves.

How many items can I borrow?
You can borrow up to 8 CDs at any one time for a period of 28 days, which can be renewed for up to two more loan periods

In the musicology and music scores section you will find the full range of musical production from Renaissance music to contemporary composition. If you study music you will find a large selection of books, journals and multimedia documentation (32,000 documents in total, of which 11,000 can be accessed directly in the Musicology Gallery).

In the score display room you can access 10,000 of the 32,000 music scores the library holds. If you enjoy watching and listening to great works, take a look at the many audiovisual documents (1,000 DVDs and VHS).

This section contributes to the richness of a local musical heritage by including scores composed within the Vaud canton. It also highlights the development of "non-classical" collections which include jazz and pop music collections as well as pedagogical and school material aimed at children and teenagers.

The music archive department groups together a hundred named collections containing more than 15,000 individual items which clearly document manuscript musical and musicographic creation within the Vaud canton and French speaking Switzerland from 1850 onwards.