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UTSA Library Acquires 10,600 Compact Discs
The process began after a music faculty member learned of the availability of the collection of classical music owned by the late H.V. Doyle. Doyle, a devoted supporter of small performing ensembles in San Antonio and a longtime USAA employee, had spent many years building the collection that encompasses not only classical works, but also jazz, folk, country western, Tejano and popular music. Following Doyle’s death at age 58, his collection was conservatively appraised at $80,000 by representatives from Texas Public Radio and Wherehouse Music. Doyle’s stepson, David Dunn, inherited the large collection and almost immediately began to receive inquiries about it from all over the country. In a gift/purchase arrangement Dunn agreed to sell for $37,000, less then half the appraised value, the entire Doyle collection to the UTSA Library for the benefit of the music faculty and their students. The Library was able to purchase the collection with assistance from a UT System special collections fund. Dunn donated the remainder of the collection. The Doyle Collection, all 95 boxes of it, is stored in the Multi-Media Center in the UTSA Library where UTSA music bibliographer John Conyers is cataloging the compact discs. "This expanded CD collection sets UTSA apart from other universities of the same size," said Conyers. "UTSA music students specializing in musical performance, music theory and music marketing will benefit from listening to the collection because it will allow them to hear a variety of ways different artists perform a particular piece of music." Music Division Director Joe Stuessy agreed. "Our faculty want our students to listen to as much music as they can, but if it is not readily available, then they can’t do so. Now the odds are greatly increased that they will have access to most of the music they are studying." Once the music is cataloged, library patrons will be able to hear musical selections in the Multi-Media Center or check them out for home listening.
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UTSA
has enhanced its musical library by increasing its holdings of compact
discs fivefold with the acquisition of nearly 11,000 compact discs amassed
by a single San Antonio collector.