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This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse any duplication. The Indiana University Digital Library Program is pleased to announce the initial launch of the Indiana University Sheet Music web site at <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/sheetmusic/>. The site currently provides access to metadata and some digital images from two sheet music collections from the Indiana University Lilly Library. Metadata is available for the approximately 24,000 pieces in the Lilly Library's Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music, along with digital images from over 1,000 pieces in this collection. Metadata for over 500 pieces from the Lilly's Starr Sheet Music Collection is available, as are digital images for most of the Starr items. This site supplements access to metadata for these two sheet music collections that has been available to Open Archives Initiative (OAI) metadata harvesters such as the Sheet Music Consortium <http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/>, the UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials <http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/>, and the University of Michigan's OAIster project <http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/> since early 2003. We will soon update these harvestable metadata records to include links to content we have digitized so that users of these harvesting services may directly view the sheet music that is online. We will also be adding digital images for approximately 1,700 additional pieces from the DeVincent collection in the near future. Digitization of sheet music for this site has been funded in 2003 and 2004 through an NEH Challenge Grant Endowment to Indiana University. ======================== Jenn Riley Digital Media Specialist Digital Library Program Indiana University - Bloomington Main Library E170 (812) 856-5759 www.dlib.indiana.edu