Prelude to a digital music library at the pennsylvania state university: networking audio for academic library users

摘要

Music audio materials (compact discs, long-playing records, and cassette tapes) are used by music faculty and students daily throughout the academic year for classroom teaching, study, and research. Students are assigned to listen to and study dozensof specific music works every semester to meet course objectives in music, and these recordings are traditionally placed on course reserve in the library by music faculty. Students must come to the library to listen one at a time to recordings housed physically in the library. Faculty must come to the library to borrow each recording they need to use in the classroom, and immediately return the recordings to the library so their students can study them. Additionally, faculty are limited to using classrooms equipped with play-back equipment for sound recordings.