The Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library provides access to one of the
largest academic music collections in North America and is the largest
and oldest major music library on the West Coast of the United States.
Its resources for music research, performance, and
study span all genres of music from ancient times to today.
The Music Library has a long history of forward-thinking services and
projects, producing concerts and music programs since 1949 and
publishing music literature since 1966. It administers The Hugo and
Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music to support
contemporary music in a wide variety of ways including sponsoring
conferences, exhibitions, concerts, residencies, composition
competitions, and commissioning new works. It publishes the Contemporary
Music Score Collection, with digital, open access scores.