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RECORD LIBRARIES AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES COMMISSIONS: Joint Session on Record Lending Libraries Author(s): Eric Cooper Source: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1977 Januar-März), p. 30 Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23506414 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 02:47 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Fontes Artis Musicae. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 185.2.32.110 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 02:47:56 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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RECORD LIBRARIES AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES COMMISSIONS: Joint Session on Record LendingLibrariesAuthor(s): Eric CooperSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1977 Januar-März), p. 30Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23506414 .

Accessed: 14/06/2014 02:47

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30 IAML Annual Conference in Bergen

The second session of 20 August was joined by Fontes editors Rita Benton and André Jurres, who

attended to explain the new look of the IAML publication, and its division into three major sections: articles of varying lengths, news items, and a book list together with book reviews. Dr. Benton en

couraged members of the Commission to contribute to the journal. Among possible suggested contri butions are: a list of noncommercial recordings, discographies, and a union catalog of commercial cata

logs from different countries. It was also pointed out that the discographie standards discussed in an earlier meeting of this Commission would be written up and submitted to Fontes for possible publi cation for wide distribution. The establishment of an editorial council for Fontes with a member from each IAML Commission was also suggested.

The Commission then moved to adjourn to the Public Library Commission for a joint session on literature on recordings and a description of the U. S. and British MARC formats.

Besides some of those who had attended the first session (i.e., Adler, Deetman, Gibson, Landén, Moores, Rosenberg), the following were present: Rita Benton (University of Iowa), C. Yvon Bourgon (Radio Canada Montreal), Garrett Bowles (Stanford University), Claes M. Cnattingius (SR Stockholm), Györgyi Csâszâr (Hungarian Radio Budapest), Joop van Dalfsen (NOS Hilversum), Aristide Frascarolo

(Radio-TV Suisse Romande Genève), Joachim von Hecker (Bayerischer Rundfunk München), Shigeru Joho (NHK Tokyo), André Jurres (Eduard van Beinum Foundation Breukelen), Dietrich Lotichius

(Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg), Ulf Scharlau (Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart), Robert Tp.rrmip.n fRndin fanada MnntrpaH

Claes M. Cnattingius, Secretary

RECORD LIBRARIES AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES COMMISSIONS Joint Session on Record Lending Libraries

In the joint session on Record Lending Libraries, chaired by Eric Cooper, the first item raised was

the IFLA questionnaire on audiovisual material. Huib Deetman asked the meeting to consider the use

fulness of such a questionnaire, and its application to music libraries. After much discussion, Gerry Gibson proposed (seconded by Evelyn van Kaam) that:

to IAML Council be petitioned to contact IFLA, expressing the opinion of this meeting that the

questionnaire on audiovisual media is too narrow in its construction and should be broadened to in

clude music materials; further that if IFLA is not able to do this, IAML should consider the possibility of undertaking the task itself.

The motion was carried, and later accepted by Council. Attention then focused on the problems

facing record librarians trying to keep up with the output from the record industry, particularly in the

absence of any national discography. The meeting heard how the Nederlands Bibliotheek en Lectuur

Centrum and the Swedish Library Service Centre have responded to national needs by producing

regular weekly or monthly lists of gramophone records, supplemented by ordering and cataloguing facilities and other related services. Finally Brian Redfern gave a lucid account of the LANCET and

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, setting them in their historical perspective and outlining present and future developments with particular reference to music and record cataloguing. In the revisions to these codes now taking place, traditional attitudes to cataloguing are being closely questioned and

even challenged. The awesome prospect of reconciling music and audiovisual librarians' conflicting needs within a single code, and the equally awesome fact of 17 or more existing systems alone

for cataloguing gramophone records caused the meeting to break up in thoughtful mood. In addition the Record Libraries Commission joined the Public Libraries Commission during the

latter's closing plenary session to discuss two items of mutual interest. First Gary Bowles described

a co-operative cataloguing venture involving six associated archives of sound recordings in the U.S.A.

As a preliminary it is intended to ascertain what resources are available in these institutions, and this should lead to an inventory of literature relating to sound recordings, with considerable uses to the record library world in general. Secondly the modification of the MARC format to accomodate music and gramophone records was discussed, revealing an unsuspected number of different developments taking place in the U.S.A., England, Denmark, Hungary, Sweden, Holland and Canada.

Eric Cooper, President Public Libraries Commission

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