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Cataloging @Yale

Scores & Sound Recordings

Scores

  1. Music Cataloging at Yale 
  2. Subject cataloging
  3. Guidelines for determining proper format for scores and score-like material
  4. Music-specific MARC tagging

    Non-Yale r​e​sources:

  • BIBCO Standard Record (BSR) for Notated Music
  • MLA Best Practices
  • Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 v.1.01 (April 2014)
  • Supplements to Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 Supplement 3: Complete MARC Record Examples, version 1.8 (31 December 2019)

Sound Recordings

  1. Audiobooks (Form Subject Tracing)
  2. Cataloging of Popular & Traditional Music Sound Recordings
  3. Non-Music Sound Recordings Checklist
  4. Non-Music Sound Recordings Copy-Cataloging Checklist
  5. Yale Music Library Sound Recording web page
  6. Preferred source of information for scores & sound recordings
  7. 007, 008, 028 fields for sound recordings
  8. Relationship designators between a resource and a person, families, or corporate bodies associated with the resource (RDA Appendix I)
  9. SML/BASS Policies & Processes for Media

  Non-Yale r​e​sources:

  • Bibco Standard Record (BSR for Sound Recording)
  • RDA for Music: Classical Music Audio Recordings
  • RDA for Music: Popular Music, Jazz, and World Music Audio Recordings 
  • Cataloging Sound Recordings 
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