• The University of Maryland is one of the nations leading public universities. The School of Music home, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, serves as a laboratory for the arts with six performance halls, The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, specialized rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and more.
  • The total music collection includes approximately 50,000 books, 150,000 scores, 140,000 recordings, and 4,500 linear feet of archival materials. The International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM) is the only institutional collection in existence devoted to historic piano performance. IPAM contains 40,000 recordings, 8,500 music scores, 2,500 books, and a collection of reproducing pianos with 8,000 piano rolls. To date, IPAM has acquired the collections of more than 40 eminent pianists.
  • The MSPAL Special Collections in Performing Arts embrace a growing number of national and international music organization archives representing music education, band history, solo and ensemble instrumental performance, music librarianship, and ethnomusicology.
  • Materials in these archives include papers, music scores, recordings, books, magazines, photographs, and oral histories.