Classifying and cataloguing music in american libraries: A historical overview

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 467-481

  Carol June, Bradley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataloging of records; Eva judd o meara; Music cataloguing; Music classification; Music librarianship; Music library association; Music subject headings

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013739302     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v35n03_08     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Oscar G. T. Sonneck, “Report on the Classification of Music and Literature on Music,” Oct. 31, 1902, Music Division Files, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
2. Herbert Putnam, “Remarks at the Funeral Services, November 1st, 1928, for O. G. Sonneck,” Musical Quarterly 15 (1929): 1-2.
3. Clarence W. Ayer, “Shelf Classification of Music,” Library Journal 27 (1902): 5-11.
4. Melvil Dewey, A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library (Amherst, Mass., 1876).
5. C. A. Cutter, Expansive Classification (Boston: C. A. Cutter, 1891-1893). [Part I: The First Six Classifications]; (Boston, Northampton, Mass.: C. A. Cutter, 1894?-1914?) [Part II: The Seventh Classification].
6. Sonneck’s memo, which itself quotes C. A. Cutter’s Library Journal critique of the Harvard scheme: “Shelf Classification of Music,” 27 (1902): 68-69.
7. George Sherman Dickinson, Classification of Musical Compositions: A Decimal- Symbol System (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Vassar College, 1938). A reprint edition is included in the author’s Dickinson Classification: A Cataloguing & Classification Manual for Music (Carlisle, Pa.: Carlisle Books, 1968).
8. Naomi Edwards Held, “Another Ample Field: Music Cataloging at UCB [University of California at Berkeley],” Cum Notis Variorum 83 (June 1984): 29.
9. Elizabeth Schmitter, interview with author, Northampton, Mass., 2 October 1973.
10. Eva Judd O’Meara, interview with author, New Haven, Conn., 11 June 1973.
11. Ruth Wallace, Chief of the Cataloging Department of the Indianapolis Public Library, was the editor (Chicago: ALA, 1927).
12. Virginia Cunningham, interview with author, Chapel Hill, N.C., 14 January 1979.
13. John W. Cronin, “Introduction,” in U.S. Library of Congress. Library of Congress Catalog: Music and Phonorecords; A Cumulative List of Works Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards, 1953-1957, 3. Two articles describe the beginning of LC cards for records: Lucile M. Morsch, “Printed Cards for Phonorecords: Cataloging,” Notes 10 (1952-53): 197-98, and Richard S. Angell, “Printed Cards for Phonorecords: Subject Headings,” Notes 10 (1952-53): 198-200.
14. “Cooperative Cataloguing of Music,” unpublished document, O’Meara Papers.
15. “Use of Standard Titles on Printed Catalog Cards,” cited in unpublished document, 9 June 1936, O’Meara Papers.
16. “Arrangement and Care of Phonograph Records,” Library Journal 62 (1937): 150-54.
17. “Cataloguing and Filing of Phonograph Records,” Library Journal 62 (1937): 544-46.
18. Gordon Stevenson, “Classification Chaos,” Library Journal 88 (1963): 3789- 94; reprint, Reader in Music Librarianship, ed. Carol June Bradley (Washington: Microcard Editions, 1963), 274-78; quote from 274.
19. Harriet Nicewonger, “Subject Approaches in the Music Library at UCB [University of California at Berkeley],” Cum Notis Variorum 75 (September 1983): 5.
20. Summarized from Nicewonger, “Subject Approaches,” 6-7.