Overview
Organizations and Services
A number of honorary and professional music organizations maintain chapters at Indiana University. A partial list of these organizations can be found at http://music.indiana.edu/about/student-life/student-organizations.shtml.
The Music Alumni Association, an affiliate of the Indiana University Alumni Association, supports the activities of the Jacobs School of Music and its graduates. More information can be found at http://music.indiana.edu/alumni/.
The Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development (OECD) provides expert guidance and resources, as well as a wide variety of events designed to empower Jacobs School of Music students as they prepare for a career in music and or dance. In collaboration with the graduate and undergraduate offices, the OECD provides one-on-one career advising, multiple online tools, an alumni mentorship program, departmental career days, mentorship to student organizations and projects, and digital publications. The OECD is the home base for a student-led initiative called Project Jumpstart that promotes entrepreneurial action among students by offering high-impact career development and entrepreneurship workshops, networking events, peer support for projects, mini-conferences, and coordination of the annual Innovation Competition. An undergraduate Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship, which includes two JSoM courses, is available through the Kelley School of Business. More information can be found at http://music.indiana.edu/oecd.
The Office of Pre-College and Summer Programs administers all aspects of workshops, masterclasses, conferences, and special programs for the Jacobs School of Music. In addition, the office runs the ongoing pre-college program and the summer residential pre-college academies. More information can be found at http://music.indiana.edu/precollege/index.shtml.
The Society of the Friends of Music of Indiana University is an organization of people of wide-ranging occupations who support the excellence of the Jacobs School of Music through scholarships and other activities. More information can be found at http://music.indiana.edu/departments/offices/friends-of-music/index.shtml.
The William and Gayle Cook Music Library spans four floors of the Beth Meshulam Simon Music Library and Recital Center. With over 750,000 cataloged items, and a staff that includes eight librarians and professional staff, six support staff, and approximately forty-five student assistants, it is recognized as one of the largest music libraries in North America. The strengths of the collection include extensive holdings of printed music from all periods of music history, with a special emphasis on opera; theory treatises from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century; Russian/Soviet music and music of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War; early keyboard and violin primary source materials; Black and Latin American music collections; and scholarly editions of historical monuments and composers’ collected works. In addition, the performing ensembles collection contains scores and parts for large ensembles, including virtually all of the standard orchestral and choral repertoire in support of the Jacobs School of Music’s choirs and orchestras. The Music Library also provides access to hundreds of electronic resources as detailed on its website. Ongoing digital music library projects, including Variations and Media Collections Online, have digitized more than 35,000 sound recordings and scores. The University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative promises to digitize nearly all of the unique and historic sound recordings in the Cook Library’s collections. Of the 120 public computers (Windows and Macintosh) in the library, more than half have MIDI keyboards, all with associated music software. Further information is available at http://libraries.iub.edu/music.