The Chatfield Brass Band Music Lending Library (CBBMLL) is a non-profit organization in southeastern Minnesota. Home to more than 30,000 pieces of band sheet music, this library is a truly unique resource for band directors and musicians from around the world. The Community Libraries as Online Partners project is an LSTA grant-funded initiative to enable the CBBMLL to become a SELCO Online Library. SELCO (Southeastern Libraries Cooperating) in Rochester, Minnesota is an organization which fosters cooperation among public, academic, school, and special libraries in the 11 southeastern counties of Minnesota. By including the CBBMLL under SELCO's umbrella of library and technological support, the library will be able to publicize and share its resources on an entirely new scale.

Prior to its inclusion in SELCO, the CBBMLL maintained its collection through out-of-date software which did not meet the needs of either the library patrons or its staff. Migration of this data to SELCO's Horizon system has posed numerous challenges for catalogers and administration alike. Because of the unique holdings and lending system of the CBBMLL, both policy and catalog content have been shaped to meet the unique needs of an actively lending sheet music archive. This poster explores these challenges and hurdles of incorporating the CBBMLL holdings into the SELCO integrated library system, as well as the future of this ongoing project.

What follows is a multi-slide representation of the poster presented at MLA. Please click on any of the slides below to view it in more detail. At the end of the set of slides, a full version of the poster is available as well.

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