When I first got this, I did not have time to look at it, so I marked your
email (and one in the same thread from the previous day) unread. Today,
I'm taking some time to explore.
Actually, I am very interested in identifying the earliest editions of
methods and studies for trombone, so I looked in the link you sent on 23
July for "Blume, O." and came up with the familiar 36 Studies by Oskar
Blume, but it was a 1994 edition. Searching for Oskar Blume in the link
below, I found seven works, at least some musical, published in Erfurt in
the 1880s, but nothing for trombone. It looks like it might at least be
the right person.
Is there a German or European database comparable to OCLC that is likely
to have cataloging records for such old and obscure materials? Is there
any way to get to a name authority file, where I might find informative
notes?
My German (and French and Italian) is pretty awful, but it ought to be
good enough to identify what I need in either MARC records or ISBD
records.
Thank you for your attention.
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David Guion
Music Cataloger
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Jackson Library
320 College Ave.
Greensboro, NC 27412
(336) 334-5781
dmguion_at_uncg.edu
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_BIBLIO.TU-BS.DE>
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07/24/2007 09:41 AM
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Andrew Nagy writes:
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> I think browsing is very important and I want VUFind to be able to have
an equally powerful browsing component complimentary to the searching
component.
> The browsing is just really tough to do really well.
>
But not impossible. There is, for example, a very efficient ctree tool
for building and real-time management of binary trees.
Look at this implementation to see a name index:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/vk/page.php?urG=PER&urA=18&urS=_clemens,+sam
Enter some other name to see what happens.
The database has 15m records.
You can switch to other indexes:
Title beginnings
Title keywords
Series titles
and a few more.
The interface is only partly English. This catalog is used in many
German libraries to find titles for retro conversion.
Here, it serves _only_ to show what I mean by "browsable index",
and to show how it can work. The large catalogs here all have
indexes for browsing, not looking exactly like this one.
Here's one with an English interface:
http://gso.gbv.de/LNG=EN/DB=2.1/
Switch from "search (and)" to "browse" (upper left) to see what I mean.
This catalog is even larger, it has the combined holdings of libraries
in northern Germany.
B. Eversberg
Received on Wed Aug 15 2007 - 07:10:48 EDT