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approaching 20,000 scores...time for a party?
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:20 am
by aldona
Anything special planned for when we hit the 20,000 score mark?
(currently at 19,736)
Anyone got any ideas?
Aldona
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:45 am
by Yagan Kiely
IMSLP should do April fools announcements like Google does. Doing one this year might have been cruel though: 'IMSLP OPENS TOMORROW!!!' wait, April fools.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:09 am
by imslp
How about some very good news concerning Sibley Music Library and IMSLP?
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:38 am
by aldona
Now you've got us curious! What kind of news??
That soon all of the Sibley scores will be on IMSLP? (we're working as fast as we can!)
Aldona
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:47 am
by Yagan Kiely
Sibley will buy us some of those scanners that Google use?
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:49 am
by Vivaldi
That Sibley has added thousands of new scores to its library?
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:52 pm
by imslp
Patience people
All will be revealed when we get 20000 scores.
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:08 am
by Yagan Kiely
It will be revealed that Feldmahler enjoys teasing people?
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:58 am
by Vivaldi
Or that the (soft) drinks are really on Feldmahler?
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:43 pm
by jfarrington
Yagan Kiely wrote:Sibley will buy us some of those scanners that Google use?
Heck, we can't even afford the Kirtas scanner that Google uses (used), and the company is located only about 10 miles from the library.
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:39 am
by Davydov
According to the home page IMSLP now has exactly
20,000 scores!
Congratulations everyone! Get those party poppers out
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:52 am
by Yagan Kiely
It really is quite a milestone. Congratulations to all.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:14 am
by imslp
Err... what yagan said
This is no small accomplishment indeed.
I guess I'll have to tell what is happening with Sibley
I'll have a more detailed blog entry about this ready in hopefully one or two days, but Sibley has officially requested that IMSLP mirror all of the contents of the Sibley online collection. They have also received a very substantial grant to scan more scores, and these will be mirrored on IMSLP as well. Please thank jfarrington above who is the Sibley librarian
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:04 am
by aldona
So now I can continue to shamelessly borrow scores from Sibley without feeling bad about it!!!
(sometimes it feels a bit like "cheating"...instead of putting in the hard work to scan things myself...)
I love trawling through their collection - lots of treasures waiting to be uncovered.
Long Live Sibley!
Do you think we could do the same with the Danish Royal Library?
Aldona
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:08 am
by horndude77
Is this going to become a new official community project? I assume the Sibley Music Library is going to work the same as it always has and IMSLP will just mirror the contents. Correct? I guess I'll just wait for the blog announcement.
Hooray for the first 20,000 scores!