IASA CATALOGUING RULES FOR AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA WITH EMPHASIS ON SOUND RECORDINGS - DRAFT FOR COMMENT AVAILABLE IN DECEMBER 1997.

Mary Miliano

The IASA Cataloguing Rules for Audiovisual Media With Emphasis on Sound Recordings is in preparation and due for release at the end of 1998.

This work is designed to be compatible with the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. - 2nd ed., and the International Standard Bibliographic Description (Non-Book Materials) and to be able to be used in MARC or other cataloguing systems.

It aims to address cataloguing problems, solutions and concepts in particular for content and physical description of:

1. audio formats (published, unpublished and broadcast);
2. multimedia formats (including interactive CD-ROMs with audio content);
3. jukeboxes or mass storage systems; and
4. moving image formats where these are a natural extension of audio formats (e.g. music videos, musical performances on laser disc), or related to audio (e.g. FM simulcasts).

Cataloguing of a wide variety of content will be addressed. These include: music and literary recordings in all genres, oral histories, interviews, radio programmes, wildlife and environmental sounds, ethnographic recordings and actuality.

Emphasis on appropriate information to include for different types of content will be highlighted. In addition, options and alternatives will be presented to assist in guiding archives and libraries to decide on and select suitable approaches for cataloguing of their collections, and for their clients' needs and meeting institutional responsibilities.

It is intended that this work will not duplicate existing standards such as the FIAF Cataloguing Rules for Film Archives (1991), or the Rules for Archival Description (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Ottawa, Canada, 1990) but, again, will be compatible with these and will focus freshly on matters pertinent to audio-visual archives and in particular sound archives.

For instance, special attention will be given to demonstrating analytic or multilevel cataloguing of individual items or 'tracks' on published, unpublished and broadcast items.

A pre-publication draft will be available for comment by interested persons and organisations in December 1997. The draft will be available:

1. electronically at this web address: http://www.llgc.org.uk/iasa/iasa0019.html or
2. by request as hard copy from Olle Johansson, Fax +46 (8) 663 3365 (within Europe) or Mary Miliano, Fax +61 (2) 6209 3165 (outside Europe).

Members of the IASA Cataloguing and Documentation Committee who are on the Editorial Group to prepare this work are:
Mary Miliano, National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
Elsebeth Kirring, Statens Mediaarkiv, Statsbiblioteket (Denmark)
Daniele Branger, Bibliotheque Nationale de France (France)
Olle Johansson, Arkivet fùr Ljud och Bild (Sweden)
Chris Clark, The British Library, National Sound Archive (United Kingdom)
Maria Pilar Gallego, Biblioteca Nacional (Spain)
Lasse Vihonen, Yleisradio Oy (Finland)
Frank Rainer Huck, Saarl¹ndischer Rundfunk (Germany).

All comments to be forwarded to Mary Miliano. Mary Miliano
IASA Cataloguing Rules Project Convenor
Chair, IASA Cataloguing and Documentation Committee
National Film and Sound Archive
McCoy Circuit
ACTON ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 6 209 3105
Fax: +61 2 6 209 3165
Email: mary_miliano@nfsa.gov.au

Photo: Stellan Norrlander