Dear fellow lutenists, I think that all the libraries that have documents of cultural interest should digitalize their collections and make them freely available to everybody. Most of these libraries that hold old books are state organizations finanzed by the central or regional governments and at the end of the days they dont make much money selling a few old-fashioned microfilms a year. These books belong to humanity because they are an important part of the world's cultural heritage and for that reason these library should encourage people to study and learn from them. In our case, music, it is even more important since music becomes real and serves its purpose only when performed. Music stored in the shelves of an old library has no value by itself. An exemplary example is the library of Copenhagen I told you about some days ago that own the Vecchi's canzonettas. The have all their important documents freely available to everybody in PDF.
I requested the Biblioteca della musica di Bologna to make a copy of a lute book that I can not find anywhere else. I was really discouraged to learn that they charge 112 for a loan of the microfilm! It will take a lot of time and they even accept credit-cards for payment. Then I will have to go to the local library and make copies of each page of the microfilm for 20 cents a copy. To much money and complication! It should be much easier. Don't you think? The Biblioteca Centrale of Bologna holds one of the best lute collections in the world and, at least by e-mail, it is not possible to even get a reply from them. If I ever become president of my country, my first pronouncement would be: Free facsimiles for everybody!!!!! ;) Many greetings to all of you, Alfonso Marin On 10-apr-2007, at 2:14, Stephan Olbertz wrote: > Am 7 Apr 2007 um 18:13 hat Daniel F Heiman geschrieben: > >> Should the LSA digitize all the films in the Library? Nice idea. >> Requires quite a bit of (volunteer?) time by someone. Then what? >> Sell them on CD or by file download? May run into objections from >> the libraries that own the original publications and could be >> damaging >> to publishing houses like Minkoff that sell facsimiles. > > As far as I understand there are some options for giving only > limited access to pdfs, > like view-only etc. > > Regards, > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > >> >> Other suggestions? >> >> Daniel Heiman >> >> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:39:24 +0200 "Spring, aus dem, Rainer" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Arthur Ness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:52 PM >>> To: adS; lutelist Net >>> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Morleys Canzonets with lute 1597 >>> >>>> What is 17 years old? The list? The microfilm? >>> The list. >>> >>> Rainer >>> >>> CONFIDENTIALITY DISCLAIMER >>> *************************** >>> The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential >>> and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, >>> please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems >>> and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, copy or >>> use this email for any purpose outside of any NDA currently existing >>> between Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH and yourselves. >>> >>> Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH >>> Hansaallee 181- 40549 Düsseldorf >>> Handelsregister Düsseldorf HRB 22487 >>> Geschäftsführer: Ryoichi Shikama >>> Amtsgericht Düsseldorf >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > >
