Mendel Music Library - Equipment & Facilities

Equipment & Facilities

Mendel Music Library provides a comprehensive computing environment in support of the overall study of music. Both Mac and PC computers are available throughout the library, most with printing capabilities. The library is also home to a photocopier, scanners, and microform equipment.

• Multimedia Room
• General Computing
• Printing
• Scanning
• Photocopying
• Microform Equipment
• Periodicals Reading Room
• Edward T. Cone Graduate Seminar Room

Multimedia Room

Our Multimedia Room is equipped with 4 iMacs, Video viewing station, Nostalgia station, the Microfilm reader/scanner, lots of study space, and plenty of plugs to charge your laptop or phones.

The iMacs are setup with Papercut, which will allow you to print from any release station. There are 2 release stations in Mendel. These iMacs DO NOT have CD/DVD drives, but Mendel has drives available which can be used with these iMacs or your personal laptop.

Multimedia room: iMac stations

The viewing station in the multimedia room has a DVD player that will play both BluRay and "normal" DVDs from any region and multiple formats (we have yet to find a DVD in the collection that won't play on these machines). The viewing station also can play VHS tapes. 

Next to the viewing station we have what we call a "nostalgia" station that offer LP and cassette playback. Most of our LP and cassette recordings are housed offsite in Princeton's ReCAP facility and must be requested through the library's main catalog.

Viewing and Nostalgia station

General Computing

Computers with access to the Internet, Library Resources, Microsoft Office, and print capabilities are located throughout the Mendel Music Library. Wireless Internet access is also available to patrons throughout the building. For more information regarding Wireless Access please see the Library Wireless Access Page.

Printing

A print release station is located on each floor of the library. The first floor station is located in the Media/Study Room and the second floor station is in the Reading Room on the far left wall. A Princeton NetID/Tiger card is required to use all print release stations in Mendel Music Library.

Guest Printing

A Princeton NetID is required to print from all print clusters in the library. Guest users holding access/borrowers cards may obtain printing logins and passwords in the Access Office of Firestone Library. For more information, see: Printing in the Library: Visitors

Scanning

An Epson Expression 10000XL Professional Graphic Arts Scanner is located on the 2nd floor. This workstation provides users with equipment for high quality, large volume scanning projects, offering 2400 x 4800 dpi resolution and captures smooth color gradations with 48-bit color processing. Large format scanning is supported for media up to 12.2" x 17.2" and supports fast batch scanning.

Scanned images on this computer may be saved to removable media (thumb drives), printed or saved as e-mail attachments. 

Instructions located on the equipment.

Photocopying

One photocopier is located on the first floor of Mendel Library. This copier uses TigerPrint, if you do not have TigerPrint access you can use the scanner on the second floor and email those scans to be printed elsewhere.

Microform Equipment

The ScanPro2000 microform reader/scanner is located in the Media room on the 1st floor.

The ScanPro 2000 is available for reading and scanning microfilm, microfiche, microcards and micro-opaques. It can scan filmed images to PDF files, TIFF files, and JPEG files. It can also enhance filmed images that are too dark or too light, so that the image can be read more easily. Scanned files can be saved to USB drive, written to CD's, send via email attachment or printed. Users with a valid Princeton NetID may print scans at any print release station.

Printing and scanning of all materials is self-service, but our staff is happy to assist first-time users with set-up or answer any specific questions as they arise.

Periodicals Reading Room

Located on the second floor of the Mendel Music Library, our Periodicals Reading Room is home to our vast collection of scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper subscriptions. There are comfortable chairs and tables available for studying.  Study carrels are also located in the Reading Room.

Edward T. Cone Graduate Seminar Room

The Cone Seminar Room, also located on the second floor, is used by faculty and graduate students for seminars and study. It is equipped with a piano and multimedia equipment suitable for teaching. For more information about the Cone Seminar Room, contact Mendel Music Library staff.