The Dorothy K. Payne Music Library Endowment will provide funds to support the Music Library in the acquisition and preservation of materials, general care of the collections, and related programs. The first items purchased with funds from the endowment interest were two facsimiles of piano music, one by Johannes Brahms and the other by Isaac Albéniz. The Brahms composition is Fantasien für Piano, op. 116, which was composed in 1892 and consists of several small pieces. The Albéniz composition, Iberia, was composed between 1905 and 1908. Considered the greatest piano work in all Spanish musical literature, it consists of four books, each containing three pieces. Altogether, the pieces represent the composer's impressions of his native Spain.

The next purchase was fifty-eight ozalid scores of guitar and piano music, choral works and songs all inscribed by the Italian composer, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 – 1968). Castelnuovo-Tedesco was a composer of orchestral, dramatic, chamber, and film music who was best known for his almost 100 works for guitar. After relocating to the U.S. in 1939, he became one of the most sought after teachers of film music, his pupils including Goldsmith, Mancini, Previn, and John Williams. This acquisition and existing materials in the Music Library combine to create the largest Castelnuovo-Tedesco collection in the world.

In 2006, the Payne Endowment enabled the library to subscribe to the Naxos Digital Music Library, which provides access to over 170,000 audio tracks from over 12,000 CDs from the Naxos, Marco Polo, and other licensed independent labels. The majority of the recordings are classical music, but it does include jazz, blues, and world music, as well, and new releases are added monthly. Access to this online listening service is available to anyone on campus through Thomas Cooper Library's Electronic Resources page (http://delphi.tcl.sc.edu/indexdb/er.php), and off-campus users can enjoy the service by logging in with a valid Network Username (Blackboard, Novell, GEM) and password. This major acquisition serves not only School of Music faculty and students, but the entire Columbia campus community.

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