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Re: arsclist Cataloging
Steve's points are interesting, but private individuals don't need to buy
their cataloging from OCLC. All of these utilities (and most library
catalogs) can export catalog records in a variety of formats. This is how
researchers compile bibliographies and one could do the same for an LP or
CD collection. This doesn't address if library cataloging meets the needs
of an individual collector, but if you just want to make a list of what
you've got, it will certainly suffice.
A library catalog is not a discography and isn't the definitive source of
information about a disc, and shouldn't pretend to be. Our catalog tells
our patrons what we have and describes the recording in enough detail to
distinguish it from similar items. Collectors want discographies and
libraries need catalogs and these will always need to be structured
differently.
This would be an interesting subject for the conference.
David
Would you buy cataloging, as with OCLC who sells their cataloging to
libraries, only in a more consumer-friendly form? Is there a business for
someone doing this out thee, perhaps in conjunction with a preexisting
business who have developed the materials we need and would mostly have to
alter, expand and shuffle data they already have?
ARSC's present efforts at putting together everyone's 78 lists suffers
from a lack of standards applied uniformly by the various
contributors. Ross Laird's "Brunswick Records" is terrible when it comes
to identifying classical music.
If ARSC is to have a hand in cataloging issues as they relate to private
collectors, perhaps in conduction with one of the pre-existing cataloging
services, this should be addresses both on this list and, perhaps, at the
forthcoming conference.
For those who feel that a dollar spent on cataloging is a record not
bought, this is not for you.
Steve Smolian
David Seubert, Curator
Performing Arts Collection
Davidson Library Special Collections
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-5444 Fax (805) 893-5749
mailto:seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/
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