KNJIZNICE I GLAZBA: GLAZBENA GRAÐA U KONTEKSTU PROMJENA FORMALNE KATALOZNE PRAKSE/MUSIC AND LIBRARIES: MUSIC MATERIALS IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGING FORMAL CATALOGUING

• Published in: Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske Vol. 59; no. 1/2; p. 353
• Main Author: Mihalic, Tatjana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Croatian; English
• Published: Zagreb Croatian Library Association 01.01.2016
• Subjects: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records-FRBR; Information society; Librarians; Library cataloging; Music libraries
• ISSN: 0507-1925

The paper deals with the specifics and different types of musical material that is kept in libraries, and also with the issues of its formal description. The changes that have been brought with the development of the information society have undoubtedly influenced the music and music material kept in the heritage institutions such as libraries. Different ways of publishing and distribution of music, together with a variety of media and formats of music content, have caused a number of concerns in descriptive cataloguing. Today, music librarians are swamped with a large number of guidelines, instructions, standards, and rules that need to be consulted in order to identify and record the specifics of musical material. Although, in the international community, the standards for the description of music material have existed for quite some time, some new conceptual standards and models, introducing changes into the paradigm of cataloguing, have been published relatively recently. Here we refer primarily to the conceptual model of FRBR and the new Anglo-American cataloguing standard known as RDA. The music librarians are facing a new kind of challenge: how to use different standards and rules appropriately in order to describe music not only in the context of uniformity of records but also for the benefit of the entire user community.