Judith -
What about TOCs of, say, 1000-song fake books? We do enter those tables
of contents locally, and they are heavily used by library patrons. Most
of these songs are distinctive popular titles, not ones that would
benefit from any sort of uniform title. I have a hard time imagining how
a separate record for each song would help us.
I realize that you are talking about digital and audio materials, while
I am talking about print. Your statement about throwing away tables of
contents is not limited to any particular sort of record, however. I
think it makes sense to consider how this blanket statement would apply
across the board, not only to a limited universe of records.
Jean
Jean Harden, Music Catalog Librarian
Libraries
University of North Texas
PO Box 305190
Denton, TX 76203-5190
(940) 565-2860
jharden_at_library.unt.edu
>>> Judith Pearce <jpearce_at_NLA.GOV.AU> 1/29/2007 7:15 PM >>>
...
In our new generation catalogues, why don't we throw tables of
contents
in records away, start giving parts of things their own records and
express parent-child relationships in forms that enable users to
navigate up and down bibliographic hierarchies and that enable the
generation of tables of content dynamically in displays of the parent
record.
...
Judith
Judith Pearce
Director, Feasibility & Standards
National Library of Australia
CANBERRA ACT 2600
phone: +61 2 62621425
email: jpearce_at_nla.gov.au
Received on Tue Jan 30 2007 - 09:51:09 EST