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Gabriele, Here's the Vatican Library's donations page http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=donazioni&ling=eng You can click on a range of funds, including their manuscript digitization project, taking you to a cash donations page: http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=dona&cat=digi...

@ KGill How does it damage musical knowledge? It has the composer's name on it and as such it is clearly identifiable as being by Rolla. It is absolutely no different than trusting your (anonymous) scanners at the library. I hope you are joking! Or do you really think that if you find a composer's n...

Dear all, just a last explanation about the way the reproduction of documents process works here, because it seems that most of you imagines life of a librarian being similar to a bookseller's one: 1) I usually get an email from someone asking if we have "some music from composer xy" (it s...

Hi Philidor, Are you certain? If Rupert Murdoch woke up tomorrow and donated €10,000,000 to the Milan Conservatory Library, you'd be obliged, under Italian law, to return the cheque? I truly hope we can reach agreement on this. It's a great shame to place huge costs between musicians and public doma...

Hi all, here some replies: @ Philidor and others: your suggestion is nice, but situation in Italy is quite different from English-speaking countries: I'm not an administrative person, but I suspect that in fact our institution can't accept money donations at all, by law. @ Carolus: So we have a conf...

Hi all, please continue this discussion, if interested, in this thread: http://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5075 Unfortunately (for me :-) I don't have time enough to follow more than one thread. Gabriele Gamba Conservatorio di Milano - Biblioteca ( http://www.consmilano.it/index.php?id=3...

Hi Philip I suppose that eventually this might be handed over to the lawyers to discuss, or those with some insight into the legalities — so let me say outright that I am not a lawyer and do not speak for the website. The subsequent discussion on the thread you mentioned indicated that while the rig...

Hi all, I'm happy to see that the Digital library of the Milan Conservatory (http://www.consmilano.it/index.php?id=biblioteca_digitale ) has raised interest in the people reading this forum. Several questions, I see, are on the table, concerning image downloading, copyright, payment of fees and more...