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Ether Today, Gone Tomorrow: 21st Century Sound Recording Collection in Crisis
- Notes
- Music Library Association
- Volume 72, Number 3, March 2016
- pp. 461-483
- 10.1353/not.2016.0041
- Article
- Additional Information
Today’s music industry increasingly favors online-only, direct-to-consumer distribution. No longer can librarians expect to collect recordings on tangible media where first-sale doctrine applies. Instead, at an ever-increasing rate, librarians are discovering that music recordings are available only via such online distribution sites as iTunes or