Public Music Libraries in Lower Saxony

Which city libraries in Lower Saxony have music departments with sheet music, books and recordings?

The public music libraries in Lower Saxony provide those interested in music with media for the practice of music, for actively listening to music and for learning about music. The holdings mainly include sheet music for all musical instruments, instrumentations and levels of difficulty as well as scores, piano scores and complete editions for study purposes. The institutions also stock sound recordings and specialist musical literature; anyone looking for a particular music magazine will often find what they are looking for here too. The majority of the public music libraries represented at the German Music Information Centre (miz) are members of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) and offer specialist music library information on a collection of at least 10,000 media units. As a rule, this includes at least 5,000 items of sheet music, recordings, books on music and magazine subscriptions. Libraries with music-specific special collections, some of which are of regional significance, are also listed, as are libraries that have significant music-related digital offerings or offer the opportunity to make music and use instruments on site.