Music Discovery: Past, Present, and Future.
Those designing library discovery systems are presented with numerous challenges, many of which relate to "non-book materials" such as music scores and recordings. Generally, cataloging rules and search or discovery systems are optimized for text written "about" a specific subject or works bearing d...
| Published in: | Notes Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 591 - 620 |
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Music Library Association Inc.
Jun2019
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