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Sibley Music Library has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Award of $300,000 in support of the Library’s continuing efforts to digitize music scores in the public domain. This award supports a second phase of scores digitization that will extend from May 2011 through September 2012 and builds on a similar NEH grant-funded project that concluded in April 2011.
The 2009–2011 NEH award resulted in the digitization of 9,600 public domain scores (still in the process of being uploaded), a total of 303,000 pages of digitized music. Like that first grant, this second NEH award supports the efforts of Sibley Music Library to provide free online access to public domain scores from the Library’s general collections, with an emphasis on those scores not widely held by other libraries and not digitized elsewhere. The Library’s scores digitization program, which complements other large-scale book-centric digitization programs, has become an important source of music for scholars and musicians in this country and around the world. To date, Sibley Music Library has digitized over 11,000 public domain scores and books, which have accounted for more than three million downloads from the University of Rochester’s Digital Repository, UR Research https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewIn ... ctionId=25.

Congratulations, Jim, on this achievement! The Sibley library is an important American treasure trove for one-of-a-kind scores that has done tremendous work with the past NEH grant to enrich the public domain in the field of music. Here's hoping this next grant will continue to uncover unique gems hidden in your collection!

I can’t better what Daphnis said – congratulations, and here’s to more outstanding music publications becoming widely available.

Outstanding! Congratulations, Jim. You and everyone at Sibley has been doing a wonderful job, with scores of interesting works saved from oblivion.