It was a reply to David's post (below). Notice that he mentions sharing costs which is definately reasonable. Photocopying is a work which has to be paid, however I have a feeling that sooner or later probably most of interesting manuscripts will be digitalised. We only discuss how it could be done.
jl Wiadomo¶æ napisana przez Alan Hoyle w dniu 26 kwi 2012, o godz. 22:17: > I do agree in principle with such sentiments, but, as Donna Stewart (a > librarian as well as a supreme interpreter of renaissance music for voice) > explained on the net a few months ago, the photographing (not to mention the > year-on-year conserving of these manuscripts, along with other aspects of > their management) costs an increasingly large amount of money - and at a time > when economic/fiscal pressures of public funds seem to be tightening focus on > what will bring a 'useful' financial return. > > Since, as lutenists, we have perversely chosen a non-commercial passion to > pursue, we should not expect the world to leap in and pander to it. We are > hugely fortunate already with the amount of tablature available for free via > Fronimo, Django & other sources. it ill behoves us to complain if a library > requires a contribution to its running costs to have access to its > manuscripts. Of course, if they find they can give it for free - so much the > better! > > > > > > > 2012/4/26 Jaros³aw Lipski <[email protected]> > Hear, hear! Absolutely, manuscripts should be in the public domain and easily > available (at least in future). > > jl > > > Wiadomo¶æ napisana przez David Tayler w dniu 26 kwi 2012, o godz. 02:38: > > > Since I'm a hippie and believe all music should be free, some good must > > come from this. > > However, since I run a group and believe people should be paid, why > > don't you set up a PayPal donation event and I will be happy to chip > > in. And I imagine others would as well. > > I have often paid for mss to be scanned at libraries, knowing full well > > that others would benefit from these mss being "bumped" to the head of > > the inevitable line, to quote Dr. Blow. > > All mss will be scanned, of course. Only when? I just wish it had all > > been sooner before I ruined my eyes in the microfilm booth. > > However, I think it would be nice to share the cost. > > dt > > > > -- > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > --
