Developing and delivering the systems to make the service possible posed enormous challenges to music librarians and information professionals across Australia.
Some state libraries, such as Queensland and Western Australia, also developed arts initiatives to perform and record hitherto unknown historic musical works pertaining to their regions, and others, such as the State Library of South Australia, commenced programs to digitally preserve and deliver sound recordings.
Music Australia 1.0 was launched in March 2005 with a wide and substantial range of content from major and minor contributing institutions.
The rapid changes in the music industry, driven by new technology and delivery models, posed many challenges for the service as we attempt to stay relevant and to provide to users access, for research or recreation, to Australian music resources.
[1] The collection includes music scores, sound recordings, websites, pictures, films, multimedia, kits, objects, archival collections and other music-related material held in libraries, archives, museums, universities, and specialist music and research organisations in Australia.