Abstract:Libraries are positioned at the nexus of creative production, music publishing, performance, and research. The academic library community has the potential to play an influential leadership role in shaping the music publishing life cycle, making scores more readily discoverable and accessible, and establishing itself as a force that empowers a wide range of creativity and scholarship. Yet the music publishing industry has been slow to capitalize on the digital market, and academic libraries have been slow to integrate electronic music scores into their collections. In this paper, I will discuss the historical, technical, and human factors that have contributed to this moment, and the critical next steps the academic library community can take in response to the booming digital music publishing market to make a lasting impact through setting technological standards and best practices, developing education in these technologies and related intellectual property issues, and becoming an active partner in digital music publishing and in innovative research and creative possibilities.

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数字时代大学图书馆在塑造音乐出版中的作用

摘要：图书馆位于创意制作，音乐出版，表演和研究之间。高校图书馆界有潜力在塑造音乐出版的生命周期，使乐谱更容易被发现和访问以及将自己确立为一种赋予广泛的创造力和奖学金的力量方面发挥影响力。然而，音乐出版业在利用数字市场方面一直进展缓慢，而大学图书馆在将电子乐谱整合到其收藏中的过程也很缓慢。在本文中，我将讨论促成这一刻的历史，技术和人为因素，