[1] For more than 70 years it was located within Victoria Library at 160, Buckingham Palace Road on the first floor.
[5] The American librarian Dorothy Lawton also advised on the initial organization.
[6] Another critic, Harold Rutland, bequeathed his extensive collection to the library after his death in July 1977.
The library holds every edition of Grove's Dictionary and an archive of 450 music journal titles.
[8] The library is particularly noted for its coverage of British scores from the 19th and early 20th century, and for its collection of press cuttings, originally the working library of Edwin Evans.