Cataloging Sheet Music
Guidelines for Use with AACR2 and the MARC Format
Series: Music Library Association Technical Reports #28
Co-published with: Music Library Association

Edited by Lois Schultz and Sarah Shaw

List Price: $50.00 ISBN: 0-8108-4750-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-4750-7 Pub Date: 2003 224 pages Binding: Paper Availability: In Stock   European customers click here

SUBJECTS
Music » Reference
Religion » Music
Library & Information Science » Cataloging & Classification
Library & Information Science » Archives
Library & Information Science » Music Librarianship

REVIEWS
"This volume will be essential to those catalogers who deal with sheet music and is highly recommended for library cataloging departments, archives and museums whose institutions collect sheet music." — TECHNICALITIES

DESCRIPTION
Sheet music, a genre of printed music with many difficulties of definition and categorization, has posed a serious problem of bibliographical control to many libraries throughout this century. Cataloging Sheet Music: Guidelines for Use with AACR2 and the MARC Format has been written primarily for the use of catalogers in archives, libraries, and museums to assist them in the preparation of standard cataloging records in print or electronic format. The work ties the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, a recognized cataloging standard, to the genre. There are explanations of music cataloging practice intended to aid non-music catalogers in the use of this tool. Other discussions are designed to expand the music cataloger's understanding of publishing practices somewhat peculiar to sheet music.

While much of the content emphasizes the description of the music, there are also sections devoted to subject access to illustrations, first line/chorus/refrain text, illustrators, engravers, and publishers. There are extensive reproductions of title pages from the eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries that are accompanied by examples of the cataloging. Each example includes three levels of description--minimal, core, and enhanced.

ABOUT THE EDITORS
Lois Schultz is Head, Monographic Cataloging Section, Perkins Library, Duke University, North Carolina. Sarah J. Shaw is Catalog Librarian (Music), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

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