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Universal Donates 200,000 Master Recordings to Library of Congress

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PCWorld Jan 11, 2011 10:58 AM

At least someone in the music industry is trying to keep up with the Internet age--Universal Music Group is donating over 200,000 vintage master recordings to the Library of Congress.

The Library plans to catalog and digitize the collection and make it available for public online streaming this upcoming spring. The collection features historic recordings from Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, and Louis Armstrong among others, including "Frim Fram Sauce" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby, and "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Louis Armstrong.

"It is certainly within the national interest to acquire this recorded collection, and all its accompanying materials, for custodial care," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a press release Monday, "A surprisingly high percentage of America's recording heritage since the early part of the 20th century has been lost due to neglect and deterioration."

The collection will be digitized at the Library's Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. The Library's Recorded Sound Section currently has around three million items, most of which are noncommercial.

Engadget points out that it does not appear that the intellectual property rights will pass with the recordings, "as the press release states this agreement continues the Library's 'unprecedented autority to stream commercially owned sound recordings online.'"

[ArsTechnica via Engadget / Photo: Vibragiel on Flickr; used under Creative Commons]

[ALIA] Library folk in the pub, Melbourne, Wednesday 16 March 2011‏

Just saw the email from Ian about an ALIA social event next week. Anyone want to go? If so we need to RSVP by Tuesday 15 March at 12 noon (to the email address provided in Ian's email).

Cataloguing 2 - March 9

Just in case anyone is interested here are a few of the main things we did today (definitely _not_ a comprehensive record) ...

We started looking at MARC and did Self Help Exercises 1 & 2. There are notes in the materials (have a look around p 28 - there are different page numbers in different versions).

Main website

The main website to look at for today's class was the Library of Congress page: MARC 21 format for bibliographic data. You can either use that link to go directly there, or go to http://www.loc.gov/marc then click on the Bibliographic link (on the left under the heading 'MARC formats').

This links you to the pages you need to look at to do Self Help Exercises 1 & 2 (which we worked on in class).

Other things
We had a look at:
* metadata (and some webpages - see sites listed in the materials)
* Dublin Core elements
* Getty elements

Placements 2011

Just a note - Ian said that Paula would be coming to Cataloguing 2 today (Wed) to speak to us about placements.

Careers fair - Tuesday 8 March

Hi everyone. Just wondering if anyone is going to the careers fair next week. Here's a link to the page with the info - I'm not sure if you have to log in as a student to be able to look at it though.