Research Catalog

Title

Reader in music librarianship / edited by Carol June Bradley.

Publication

Washington : Microcard Editions Books, 1973.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bradley, Carol June

Description

xvi, 340 pages; 27 cm.

Summary

A compendia of the classic articles on which the cornerstone of American music librarianship was built. Many of the articles included are out-of-print or otherwise unavailable, as well as several original articles by acknowledged experts, and several foreign-language articles published for the first time in English translation.

Series Statement

Reader Series In Library And Information Science.

Uniform Title

Reader series in library and information science (Westport, Conn.)

Subject

• Music libraries
• Music librarianship
• Cataloging of music
• Classification > Music
• Subject headings > Music
• Subject headings > Music
• Classification > Music
• Cataloging of music
• Music librarianship
• Music libraries
• Muziekbibliotheken

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

The scope, organization and function of music libraries as well as their interrelationship with musicology and musicologists. Music in our libraries / Oscar G. Sonneck -- Forms and functions of the music library / Manfred F. Bukofzer ; The scope of the music research library / Alexander Hyatt King -- Discussion of music libraries by type: public libraries. Music materials and the public library; a report to the director of the public library inquiry: conclusions / Otto Luening ; The role of the public library in modern musical education / Vincent H. Duckles ; Reference demands on the music librarian in the public library / Edward E Colby -- Maintenance costs / Dorothy Tilly -- Discussion of music libraries by type: academic libraries. Problems of music library administration in the college and university / Brooks Shepard Jr ; The living library / George Sherman Dickinson ; The library in a music school / Richard M Murphy ; The music teacher and the library / Otto Kinkeldley -- Discussion of music libraries by type: radio music libraries. The training of the music librarian: radio music librarian / Helge Peterson ; The contribution of radio music libraries to national and international musical life / John Howard Davies -- Bibliography: the materials of a music library. Bibliography's stepchild: the printed note / Donald W Krummel ; The "music antiquarian" / Albi Rosenthal ; Notes on sources of musical Americana / H. Earle Johnson -- The bibliographic descriptions of musical editions, to the end of establishing their printing dates, variants, sequence, and inter-relationships. Are there musical first editions? / Kathi Meyer-Baer ; Musical first editions / Cecil B Oldman ; Musical bibliography and catalogues / Otto Erich Deutsch ; The fundamentals of music bibliography / Cecil Hopkinson ; Towards a definition of certain terms in musical bibliography / Cecil Hopkinson comp ; Some trials of a music librarian / Donald R. Wakeling -- Cataloguing and Classification. Cataloguing of music / James Duff Brown ; Cataloguing special publications: music / O.G. Sonneck ; Classification, cataloguing, indexing / Minnie Elmer ; Some pros and cons regarding an international code for cataloguing practical music / Richard S. Hill ; The international code for cataloguing music / Isabelle Cazeaux Classifications in American music libraries / Kathi Meyer-Baer ; The library of congress classed catalog for music / Virginia Cunningham -- Thematic indices. Pictures invade the catalog: two examples of illustrated cards: for music / Catharine Keyes Miller ; The historical development of thematic catalogue / Lenore Coral -- Application of data processing techniques. Utilization of data processing techniques in music documentation / Barry S. Brook -- Copyright and music. Copyright: an introduction / Harry Kownatsky ; Copyright: law revision and music librarians / Abe A. Goldman -- Exhibitions. On the planning and arranging of music exhibitions / A. Beverly Barksdale -- Acquisitions. Observations on library acquisitions of music / Donald W. Krummel ; The ordering and supply of sheet music / H.P. Dawson and B.R. Marks ; Book-buying in a university music library / Vincent H. Duckles ; Selection policies for a university music library / James B Coover -- Binding. Binding / Gladys E/ Chamberlain -- Phonograph records, tapes, etc within the music library. The preservation and reference services of sound recordings in a research library / Harold Spivacke ; The place of Gramophone recordings in a university music library / Vincent H. Duckles ; The practical record selector: a "plaine and easie" introduction / Gordon Stevenson ; Classification chaos / Gordon Stevenson ; Copying phonograph records / Anonymous -- Buildings and equipment appropriate for the music library. On planning a music library / Wolfgang M. Freitag -- Music librarianship. Training for music librarianship: aims and opportunities / Otto Kinkeldey ; The training of the music librarian / Harold Spivacke ; The music librarian: his professional training / Suzanne Clercx-Lejeune ; Librarians and musicologists / Francois Lesure ; Music librarian, bibliographer, documentalist / Vincent H. Duckles ; The music librarian and his tasks, national and international / Alexander Hyatt King.

ISBN

• 0910972486
• 9780910972482

LCCN

73082994

OCLC

• ocm01957958
• 1957958
• SCSB-9002265

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library