- Sharing
of resources needs to be supported
- Need
to identify collection overlaps and gaps in the national
distributed collection
- Need
for directory information e.g. Conspectus
- Need
for specialist directories derived from Conspectus data
- Need
for large scale Internet access by individual users
- Need
searchable access to music collections via the Internet to
various databases
- Need
to develop an agreed strategy for centralised/distributed
database creation and access
- Need
for longer term collection building
- Preservation
- Need
to get people/institutions to see themselves as part of the bigger
picture
- Need
to engage collecting bodies to see themselves as part of the distributed
national collection
- Need
to address the shift from centralised to distributed collection
- Interlibrary
loan arrangements
- Opportunities
presented by electronic access and related challenges
- Opportunities
to develop regional arrangement for cooperation
- Interface
between music librarians and wider community of users
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- Ad
hoc collecting
- Lack
of knowledge of other collections
- Problem
of accessing collections
- Items
not catalogued
- Items
not for loan
- Local
dynamics
- Special
needs, formats, access arrangements not easily
affordable by sector
- Structures
based on self sufficiency rather than collaboration
- Tension
between cataloguing for national collection and end user immediate
service
- Difficult
to know who is collecting and what is being collected.
- Allocation
of funds between long term and short term demand
- Balancing
of action between local and national demand
- Copyright
- In
print/availability of information held by publishers difficult
to access from libraries
- Lots
of structures to work with – under utilised
- Insufficient
cross-sectoral networking
- Insufficient
incentive for collaboration with others
- Professional
associations not resourced to lead national cooperative ventures
- Prospect
of shortage of music librarians due to nexus between
training and employment opportunities
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