Virtual Library

Need choral scores for your choir?

Our library of music is available to all BCCF member choirs, who can borrow free of charge. Our holdings grow as we host workshops, or as scores are donated, sometimes in the case of a choir disbanding. Since storage space is scarce, scores are often housed in the libraries of the borrowing choirs, and tracked by the BCCF office.

How To Borrow Scores

  • View our new Online Library showing up-to-the-minute inventory, and the option to peruse scores! Simply choose a category, browse alphabetically, add items to a virtual cart, submit your order, and receive a message back from our BCCF Librarian. From there, we’ll work with you to coordinate pickup or shipping. (Still prefer an analog version? Look through the Catalog of the Virtual Library in spreadsheet form.)
  • Write to the BCCF Librarian requesting a particular score. Applications will be taken in the order they arrive. In fairness to other users, choirs may be restricted in the number of sets they may have at any one time.
  • Music must be programmed for public performance. The concert program should acknowledge the loan: “Music on loan from the B.C.Choral Federation Virtual Library”.
  • Choirs are responsible for forwarding/returning the music scores via insured mail within two months of the performance date.

If your choir has original music scores you no longer need, the BCCF will gratefully accept your donation to the library.  Please contact the BCCF Librarian.

Help the Virtual Library Grow: BCCF Member Choir Library Database Project

To help the Virtual Library grow in value for everyone, we are compiling the library lists of member choirs. To make this happen, we hope that as choirs purchase new music, they will make some of their stored music available to their fellow choirs. We request that choirs refrain from programming their concerts with only library materials. For this reason:

  • Choirs applying to use the Library Database must allow to their own libraries to be listed internally at the BCCF. By request of participating choirs, individual libraries are not listed on the BCCF web page.
  • Photocopies are not acceptable on a library listing.
  • Choirs searching for specific music should contact the BCCF Librarian. When the music has been tracked down, the applying choir will be put in touch with the choir possessing the music.
  • Any loans or exchanges between choirs are arranged independently of the BCCF. Choirs without specific loan policies may use a standard agreement form obtained from the BCCF office. 

For more information on borrowing:

Contact Brigid Coult, BCCF Librarian:
(604) 272-4216 / (604) 272-4217 (fax)
projectmanager@bcchoralfed.com

BCCF Library Resources
P.O. Box 4397
Vancouver BC V6B 3Z8