Western Washington University music library is worth preserving

You may have heard about the plans to dissolve the Western Washington University music library as a separate entity and absorb it into the Wilson Library, to be serviced by general library staff rather than music specialists. Sadly, it's all too true.

As things stand, a year from today there will no longer be a music library housed in the Performing Arts Center. Yet this proud institution is the crown jewel of the WWU library system, and one of the very top such facilities in the western U.S., a magnet that helps attract top faculty and students to Western's music department.