Music Notes: November 2007 Archives

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November 27, 2007

LCSH Weekly Lists

Just a reminder that the LCSH weekly lists of new/changed subject headings has moved. Check it out here

Questions? Ask Mary

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November 14, 2007

Brava Kristi!!

Brava, Kristi!! What a wonderful hour of music! (Kristi gave her recital yesterday) On the program were songs by Franz Schubert, Pietro Cimara, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel's "Kaddisch" from Deux melodies hebraiques. The Cimara songs were particularly lovely, and previously unknown to me (so now I have another "project" :) )

Well done!

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November 9, 2007

Come to Kristi's recital!

Kristi will be giving a recital next Tuesday, 13 November 2007, at 2:30 in the Ultan Recital Hall located in Ferguson (right across from Wilson Library). Come and give her your support!

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November 2, 2007

LC Implementation of new MARC 21 characters

The following blurb appeared in the November issue of the Music Cataloging Bulletin. At this point there is not a plan to identify and change existing name/title authority records (though it looks like there will be at some point), but if the change is batch-produced, for example, these headings could be listed in MCB.

I haven't had a chance to see how the sharp sign displays or will work in Aleph. For now, please continue to use the letters "c" or "p" to indicate copyright or phonogram marks (e.g., follow LC practice), but be aware that some OCLC records may use the new characters...anyways, here's the blurb:

Imp lementation of new MARC 21 characters

The Library of Congress has announced that as of Oct. 22, 2007 the following characters will be allowed in records contributed to the LC/NACO Authority File: spacing underscore, grave, and tilde; opening and closing curly bracket; degree sign; lower case script L; copyright and phono copyright mark; musical sharp; inverted question mark and exclamation mark.

David Reser at CPSO has clarified LC's use of the copyright and phono copyright symbols. These new symbols may be found in LC-issued bibliographic records. LC will continue to use the letters "c" and "p" (rather than the new MARC symbols) for the copyright and phono copyright in the bibliographic 260/$c and authority 670/$a in new records, but will retain the symbols in records from other libraries when copy cataloging. LC will use the the new MARC characters when they are transcribed in other parts of a bibliographic or authority record (e.g., in titles, headings, etc.). LCRI 1.4F5 has been revised to reflect LC's practice.

The Library of Congress will work with OCLC to identify existing authority records in which the number sign was used for the musical sharp and superscript zero for the degree sign and convert them to their new MARC 21 equivalents.

Implementation of the following characters has been deferred: Eszett (continue to use "ss" as per LCRI 1.0E); Euro; spacing circumflex.