New England Conservatory Library

11/25/2025

We close at 6pm today for the Thanksgiving holiday. 🦃 🎉

11/25: 9am-6pm
11/26-11/27: Closed
11/28-11/29: 9am-5pm
11/30: 1pm-9pm
12/1: Full hours resume

12/14/2024

Over the summer, Miruna (our amazing student employee in the Cataloging Office) spent a LOT of time working on a project that has been in the works for about ten years: transcribing card catalog cards of NEC recital recordings from the early 1970s through 1982 so they can be found in the online catalog! Between July 2014 and today, Jason Coleman (now our Digital Services Manager) and Miruna have transcribed (or “retrospectively converted”) over 1,000 cards. There are still some left to go, and we decided to fully catalog a significant number of recitals that were previously cataloged only minimally, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Many thanks to Jason and Miruna for all their careful, detail-oriented work! It’s not easy!

10/11/2024

The NEC Blumenthal Library will be OPEN for regular hours during this weekend's Fall Break!

Fri Oct 12: 9a - 5p
Sat Oct 13: 9a - 5p
Sun Oct 14: 1p - 9p
Mon Oct 15: 9a - 9p
Tue Oct 16: 9a - 9p

09/23/2024

The library recently received a donation of La Danse des Infidèles, a detailed and heavily illustrated book about the jazz innovator Bud Powell. To accompany it, the library acquired a copy of the English translation as well! In 1986, Paudras wrote this book about his friendship with Powell, translated in 1997 as Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell. This book became the basis for Round Midnight, a film inspired by the lives of Powell and Lester Young, which can be streamed by the NEC community using the QR code in the image!

09/12/2024

If you are on campus be sure to check out the two new exhibits from the NEC Archives. The first, honoring long time faculty member Russell Sherman, is in the display case outside the archives on the 2nd floor of the library. The larger exhibit, "A Tapestry of NEC Trailblazers," is a collaboration between the Archives and CEB. It is located in the Schuller gallery (the hallway that connects the 2nd floors of the St. Botolph building and the SLPC.

09/10/2024

HOURS UPDATE

The Blumenthal Family Library at NEC will close a 🤏 little early tomorrow, September 11 at 8pm to accommodate an administrative event. Thank you for your cooperation!

09/09/2024

It's 🕒TIME🕒

Semester hours have STARTED at the Blumenthal Family Library!

We are open:
Mon - Thu: 9am - 9pm
Fri - Sat: 9am - 5pm
Sun: 1pm - 9pm

08/27/2024

Welcome to all the new students! Guess what year this "Moving in" photo is from?

03/14/2024

Feel that weather? The warm sunlight mixed with the cool breeze? It might be March, but someone tell Tchaikovsky that spring is here! Spring Break, that is!

As such, our hours will be a little different for the break!

Full hours through tomorrow, Fri. Mar. 15
Sat. Mar. 16: 9am - 5pm
Sun. Mar 17: closed

Mon. Mar. 18 - Fri. Mar. 22: 9am - 5pm

Sat. Mar. 23: 9am - 5pm
Sun. Mar. 24: closed

Mon. Mar. 25: full hours resume

🕘 - 🕔 ☘️🌷🌱📚

02/09/2024

Today, we are thankful for all the beautiful music that Seiji Ozawa brought the world under his baton. The longest serving director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Ozawa was a titanic force in the classical music sphere and will be deeply missed.

We encourage you to take a moment of your day and listen to some of his greatest recordings, including Mahler's 1st symphony and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

01/10/2024

Winter Break is ending! 💔
But that only means more music and research for the spring semester! 🤩

The NEC Blumenthal Family Library is open 9am-5pm through this Saturday, 1/13/24. We will be closed Sunday 1/14/24 and then Monday 1/15/24 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

On Tuesday, 1/16/24, our regular hours resume! 🕰️
For more info on hours, check our website: necmusic.edu/library 🌐

10/20/2023

Happy birthday Jordan Hall!

1903: Eben D. Jordan Jordan Hall opened on October 20, 1903 as a gift of Eben D. Jordan II, a Conservatory trustee. It was built at a construction cost of $120,000.