Yet, there's something noble about making these availlable at no cost, just
as there's something noble about public libraries making books availlable at
no cost to the user in the interest of enriching the culture. A decidedly
uncapitalistic sentiment originating with an arch-captialist, Andrew
Carnegie.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Andrico" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: More digital facsimiles from the (public) libraries?
Hello David & All:
While I agree in concept that the facsimiles should be available, and
that providing access to the source material is a good thing, I don't
necessarily believe charging for facsimiles is evil. Perhaps you meant
'a necessary evil'? The work that goes into preparing a facsimile;
photographing, maximizing its legibility, concordances if they are part
of the package, reproducing, binding and conveying to players,
certainly is not carried out by nefarious, money-grubbing Dick Cheney
types (as a reference for evil personified). Well probably not
anyway. I appreciate all of my Boethius and Minkoff facsimiles and,
even if they cost as much as a small house, they don't smell of sulfur
when I crack the covers.
Ron Andrico
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:33:08 -0800
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: More digital facsimiles from the (public)
libraries?
>
> Although I understand all of the issues, including compensating ppl
> for their time, charging money for facsimiles is basically evil, and
> in the long run everyone will be better served by having more music
> available--more concerts, more audience, more work.
> What all libraries should do is just put it all online, and then if
> someone wants to make an edition and sell it, fine. Just make a PDF,
> and upload it, and I guarantee that everyone will benefit.
> This also prevents players from owning a repertory by limiting
access.
>
> If scholars want to sell the commentary as a separate book, that is
> also fine, and continues an established tradition.
> dt
>
>
>
> At 12:32 PM 11/10/2010, you wrote:
> > Still something that I don't get:
> >
> > why are some public (public) libraries slowly making all their MS
> > available as a digital download - and I'm thinking about the the
> > Bayerisch Staatsbibliothek here in Munich, between others -, while
> > there are other PUBLIC libraries (hello, British Library ...) -
that
> > still do not even seem to envisage that ...
> >
> > Shall we (as single members of the list) put some pressure on our
local
> > libraries? Send an email to the curators of their music departments
-
> > maybe as rightful, registered members of the library, as I guess
some
> > of us are - and ask about it?
> > (Of course, this doesn't want to diminuish at all the value of such
> > pubblication as the Dd.2.11 by the Lute Society. The scholarship
part
> > is something you dont get in a digital facsimile ...)
> > Your opinion, listers?
> > Matteo
> > On 10 November 2010 20:19, Denys Stephens
> > <[1][email protected]> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > It's also worth noting that whilst some
> > of
> > the world's libraries are making digital copies of their musical
> > sources
> > available, there is currently no expectation that this, or indeed
> > any of the
> > Cambridge University Library manuscripts will become available as
> > free
> > electronic downloads.
> > Denys
> >
> > --
> >
> >References
> >
> > 1. mailto:[email protected]
> >
> >
> >To get on or off this list see list information at
> >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
>
>
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