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Dallas Public Library music classes expand instrument lending, serve thousands
Summary
Library staff detailed a decade-long music program that offers free classes, an instrument-lending collection and volunteer-led instruction; program relies on past state grants and seeks branch expansion and volunteers.
Tiffany Bailey, manager of the libraryFine Arts unit (Central Arts, Movies and Music), told the Municipal Library Board on March 25 that the Dallas Public Librarymusic program has grown from a single volunteer-led class in 2013 to a multi-branch instructional program that serves roughly 250 students per semester.
The program provides free beginner-focused classes, a standardized curriculum, and an instrument-lending collection that allows enrolled students to check out instruments as they would books. Bailey said the circulating collection now includes about 200 instruments, roughly 47 of which are available for checkout, and that the program has enrolled about 9,000 course enrollments to date (not all unique individuals).
Bailey said the program was launched to increase access to…
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