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January 28, 2005
News from LC's annual report
Music items of interest excerpted from the Annual Report
of the Library of Congress Bibliographic Access Divisions for the
Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2004:
Music cataloging policy
The Music and Sound Recording Teams I and II and CPSO began a project to input the biography class number (ML410-ML429 in the LC Classification) and the specific cutter number into the 053 field of the name authority record NAR). Including these 053 fields will save cataloging time, not only at LC, but for other libraries that capture information for the authority records; they resolve problems of duplicate cutters or duplicate classes that may have been used for a person or group over the more than 100 years that class M has been in existence; and they can be used as links from the class number in the
authority record to the online shelflist. During the pilot period, name authority records with these 053 fields were distributed to MARC Distribution Service subscribers.
Cataloging Production and Arrearage Reduction
Bibliographic Access staffprocessed 1,600 discs from the collection of AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) broadcasts this year, bringing total
processing in this project to 120,459 items cleared. Cataloging of the Document Record Collection of more than 800 blues, jazz, boogie-woogie, gospel, and country music titles was completed. A total of 45,397 compact discs was processed during the year. The Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection, which includes approximately 1,700 woodwind instruments as well as thousands of books, prints and photographs, printed music, patents, trade catalogs, autographs, and correspondence from wind instrument manufacturers,
was cataloged using collection-level records. The Library of Congress Moldenhauer Archives of 3,600 items related to Western music history and the 15,000-item Charles Mingus Collection also received collection-level cataloging.
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January 26, 2005
New MWMLA Scholarship
The Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association has recently established the Leslie Ann Troutman Scholarship for Library Paraprofessionals and Support Staff. This scholarship provides support for attendance at Chapter meetings by library paraprofessionals and support staff. Applicants must be currently employed by a library within the Midwest Chapter region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin) and a member in good standing of the Midwest Chapter.
The scholarship is named in honor of the late Leslie Troutman, who served as Music User Services Coordinator at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Leslie helped build a national reputation for the music reference service, and served as mentor to many aspiring music library students.
The Midwest Chapter's next meeting will be held 20-22 October 2005 in Lexington, Kentucky. Prospective scholarship applicants should check the Midwest Chapter website for details.
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January 21, 2005
TS on the Move!
Phase 2 of the Technical Services move is about to begin!
Mary Huismann will be moving from her current location to a temporary location in Wilson 160D by Friday 28 January. She will be in the space formerly occupied by Sue Zuriff. This is a temporary move (to last 1-2 weeks) before she moves to her new permanent location across from the current marking room (which will eventually become the new music student work area).
Joining Mary in 160D will be Connie Andersen and Ken Page. All three will share a phone: 625-5320.
Kristi Bergland and the music students are scheduled for Phase 8 of the move.
Watch this space for more move updates!
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January 14, 2005
Mary's Pick of the Week
Celius Hudson Dougherty (1902-1986), composer, accompanist and duo-pianist, was born in Glenwood, Minnesota. He studied at the University of Minnesota under Donald Ferguson.
The website features news, an illustrated biography, schedule of events featuring Dougherty's music, film and sound clips, and a worklist.
Newly added to the Music Library are two collections of Dougherty's songs:
Folksongs and Chanties (Folio M 1629 .D745 2004)
and
30 Art Songs (Folio M 1620 .D78 S3 2004).
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