There are an abundance of music sites available, offering information on all forms and genres. The information available on any given topic is immense, and in order to stay current, it is imperative that surveys of available music-based-information sites be conducted. I hope to offer several new sites each week. This first posting offers several gateway sites and a few special collection websites.

Librarians Internet Index
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website that acts as a gateway for subject based internet searching. The information provided is selected, organized and described by a team of librarians.

All Music Guide
The All Music Guide is an excellent source for information on artists and albums for all individuals. They provide extensive discographies as well as articles signed by the contributing author.

Performing Arts Reading Room of the Library of Congress

A useful gateway for music research offering 500 named special collections, featured websites, historical digital collections, and copyright information. One of the useful features of the website is the Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance, which offers a collection of links to web resources.

Public Domain Music

Public Domain Music is a reference site useful for identifying public domain songs and public domain music.

UCLA MUSIC Library Digital Archive of Popular Music
"The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level through the UCLA Library Orion2 catalog, is one of the largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra. The collection also includes 62,500 recordings on disc, tape, and cylinder.

Particular strengths within UCLA Music Library's twentieth-century holdings include music for the theater, motion pictures, radio and television, as well as general popular music, country, rhythm and blues, and rock songs."

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

"The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain."