Collection

The Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory's resource centre houses a collection of more than 400 theses, over 300 reference books, and 700 piano scores from beginner to advanced levels, 370 of them written by Canadian composers. The collection also includes a large group of pedagogical materials for teaching piano to young children. More than 500 CDs, DVDs and videos present lectures and master classes, many using beginner or intermediary students.

The Resource Centre also has an impressive accumulation of over 600 piano methods. Each method has many volumes, bringing the total number of method books to 2,500, one of the biggest collections in Canada. This part of the resource centre collection has been acquired through generous patron donations as well as purchases.

Resource centre documents and materials can be searched in the University of Ottawa library's on-line catalogue and are available to researchers attached to the Piano Lab.