Only computers on the campus network or dialed into the university's modem pool have access to the Web site. Other colleges are creating digital sound archives, placing their audio collections online, accessible only on computers in the library. Indiana University has a digital music library that includes over 5,000 sound recordings from their collections. The recordings are available only on computers within the music building. The University of Missouri at Kansas City created Club Kaycee, an online digital jazz archive, in 1996.
Officials consider it an educational tool.
Since the Web site is publicly available and offers complete compositions, the university pays licensing fees for the rights to include the songs. But colleges trying to avoid paying off publishers for instructional use of music are bound by the fair-use limits. Lenore Coral, the music librarian for Cornell University, says that limiting a selection time makes it difficult to teach effectively. If you study a musical work, you have to listen to the whole work. She believes that the guidelines are outdated.