CATALOGUING COMMISSION: WORKING GROUP ON COMPUTER CATALOGUINGAuthor(s): Patrick MillsSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (Januar-Juni 1982), p. 46Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23505397 .

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46 1AML Annual Conference in Budapest

CATALOGUING COMMISSION: SUBKOMMISSION FÜR KLASSIFIKATION

Die Kommission nahm ihre Sitzung in Budapest zum Anlaß, ihres langjährigen spiritus rector Ivan Pe thes zu gedenken, der hier lebte und am 18. Januar 1980 starb (vgl. Fontes 27, S. 214).

Zur Diskussion stand die Facette „Besetzung" (Medium of performance), wozu Brian Redfern den Entwurf eines Thesaurus der Musik-Instrumente gemäß der Sachs-Hornbostel-Methode vorlegte. Besprochen wurden folgende Fragen: Ist eine solche wissenschaftliche Klassifikation für die musica prac tica brauchbar? Welcher Grad der Spezialisierung (z.B. bei nichteuropäischen ,,Volks"-Instrumenten) ist sinnvoll? Können oder sollen überhaupt Bücher und Noten nach ein und demselben Schema klassifiziert werden? (Der British Catalogue of Music tut es mit Erfolg, doch die meisten Bibliotheken trennen beide.)

Welche Vorteile bietet bei der Klassifikation nach Besetzung die alphabetische Ordnung nach Schlag worten bzw. Deskriptoren (wie in der Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, praktiziert), welche Vorteile hat die

„hierarchische" Systematik, wie sie - vermischt mit anderen Gesichtspunkten — in allen Freihandbiblio

theken verwendet wird? (Agostina Zecca Laterza hat 1980 eine nahezu „reine" Besetzungssystematik vorgelegt.) Lassen sich beide sinnvoll kombinieren? Diese Fragen werden in den nächsten Tagungen wei ter verfolgt.

- Judith Kaufmann berichtete über den Appendix A des New Grove: "Index of Terms used in Articles on Non-Western Music", der für die Bibliotheks-Klassifikation mit einigem Nutzen verwendet werden kann.

Kurt Dorfmüller, Vorsitzender Kurt Dorfmüller, Vorsitzender

CATALOGUING COMMISSION: WORKING GROUP ON COMPUTER CATALOGUING

This year's meeting was expected to be an opportunity to hear about the use of the computer in music

cataloguing in Eastern Europe. This work is progressing slowly in the Socialist States. So we were particu larly grateful to Hans-Martin Plesske of the Deutsche Bücherei, Leipzig, who gave an absorbing account of the computer cataloguing of literature in his organization which provided us with our first glimpse of the state of the art in this famous library. The Deutsche Bücherei was established in 1931 and currently pub lishes twelve different bibliographies in the DDR. Computerisation was begun in 1968 with the eventual

goal of a national data base, although this goal has not yet been reached. The music segment is scheduled to begin in 1982. Plesske's paper appears in this issue.

Van Dijk of the Radio Hilversum Music Library provided further information on their now well-estab lished on-line computer cataloguing service.

Lenore Coral read the following statement; The project Group on UNIMARC which was established at Cambridge received a letter from Dorothy Anderson of the UBC Office in response to the letter sent by Brian Redfern urging that the IAML group prepare recommendations to amplify and correct the cover

age of music and sound recordings in the UNIMARC document. The group has had a few organizational problems which are being corrected. We hope that the commit

tee will include representatives from each national MARC format which has provisions for these mate rials. We expect a progress report from this committee at the Brussels meeting.

Patrick Mills, Chairman Patrick Mills,

CATALOGUING COMMISSION: WORKING GROUP ON ISBD(NBM)

This project group held a closed and an open meeting of the Joint IAML/IASA working group. There were two main topics for discussion. First, further thoughts towards the revision of ISBD(NBM) which is

currently undergoing its 5 year review. In particular the group recommended that the rule for placement of the General Material Designator be changed so that the GMD would consistently be placed after the first title.

Second, the Joint Committee turned its attention to the draft ISBD(Component Parts). A letter was written outlining concerns particular to the cataloguing of music and sound recordings and requesting that

improvements or corrections be made to the definition of Component Parts; to the notion of a heading being a necessary part of the identification of the Host Document, and to the possibility that a Host Docu ment could be uniquely identified under normal circumstances with a less than full transcription of the

bibliographic description of it. It was announced that Lenore Coral has been asked to serve on the ISBD Review Committee and to chair the ISBD(NBM) Review Group. In addition to the recommendations forwarded to the review committee in the document published in Fontes 28/1-2 IAML/IASA sent the fol

lowing points in a letter of 18 May 1981: That the wording of 8.1.6 in the above mentioned document be

changed to read:

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