Mendel Music Library - About

Mendel Music Library

About Mendel Library

Woolworth Center for Musical Studies

Mendel Music Library is Princeton University’s performing arts library. It supports the research and teaching needs of the students, faculty, and staff of the Department of Music and all Programs in Theater, Dance, and Musical Theater. Mendel Library also supports all students, faculty, and staff participating in various performance ensembles, instrumental lessons, and Theater and Musical Theater productions.


Located in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies, Mendel Music Library houses over 50,000 books related to Music, Dance and Musical Theater, 57,000 scores and over 58,000 CDs & DVDs on-site with thousands more housed in the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) facility.

Arthur Mendel in 1970