Re: [ARSCLIST] MARC Records for Open Reel Tape

[Alec McLane <amclane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christie,

The World Music Archives at Wesleyan has full MARC records for all of 
its open reel collections. Go to 
http://ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7003/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First 
and run a keyword search for "world music archives." The default sort 
is reverse chronological , so you can try jumping to the end of the 
list or else sort it oldest-newest, since our earlier tapes are more 
likely to be open reel. In a record, click on Staff View to see the 
MARC record with 007 and 008 fields.

Most of our recordings are musical, but there are around 150 spoken 
word titles in the collection.

Alec McLane

> I'm looking for examples of how institutions have done item-level 
> MARC cataloging for open reel tape, especially spoken-word.  There 
> are so many redundant, optional and seemingly irrelevant fields for 
> audio recordings that I'm interested in comparing our choices to 
> others'.  If you've got some publicly-available cataloging like this 
> that you're particularly proud of, I'd really appreciate being 
> pointed toward it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Christie Peterson
> Project Archivist, Muskie Archives & Special Collections
> Bates College
> 70 Campus Avenue
> Lewiston, ME 04240-6018
> (t) 207-753-6918
> (f) 207-755-5911

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Alec McLane
Scores & Recordings/
 World Music Archives       Phone: (860) 685-3899
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