Project Group on Authority Structure for Uniform TitlesAuthor(s): Alison HallSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Januar-März 1988), p. 38Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23507589 .

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38 Commissions

Project Group on Classification and Indexing

The open session of the Project Group on Classification and Indexing began with a brief sum

mary of the Stockholm session which had been concerned with the revision of the RILMAbstracts

classification outline. This outline appears at the beginning of each publication and sets the overall

organization of the abstracts in RILM.

The Amsterdam session concentrated on possibilities for improving the RILM international

thesaurus or index. Apaper prepared by Marilyn Bliss (and read by Ann Schuursma) from the In

ternational RILM Abstracts office in New York City was the central point of discussion. The paper was titled "Indexing Policy at RILM - Present Perspectives and Future Prospects". Several main points emerged from the discussion:

1. It might prove helpful to look for genres and terms which transcend national boundaries and

which are currently missing from the index. This would include suggesting better ways of organ

izing information under the present headings (e. g. see and see also references). 2. It was decided that the generation of glossaries of important terms used in the art and folk

music of non-Western countries, especially those terms not found in the New Grove Glossary, would be constructive.

The Project Group will continue to examine the above points, particularly in relation to several

Far Eastern cultures, at the Tokyo conference in 1988.

Ann Schuursma

Chair Ann Schuursma

Chair

Project Group on Authority Structure for Uniform Titles

The Group had one working meeting at which discussion took place of the first draft to enhance

the IFLA document: Guidelines for Authority and Reference Entries, by adding provision for

music uniform titles. The problems inherent in the differences between major cataloguing codes

in the construction of uniform titles, especially those of a generic nature, were examined. It was

agreed that the inclusion of examples representative of these various codes, plus the clear caveat

that these examples are illustrative, not prescriptive, and that users should follow the practice of

their national cataloguing agency, should cover this problem. In addition, various definitions were

expanded, or clarified. It was decided that provision for references to variant headings and uni

form titles should be included, even though, for example, AACR2, does not allow for a variant

form of a uniform title. All these suggestions, amendments, etc., will be incorporated into a se

cond draft, which will be sent to the members of the Project Group for further comments and sug

gestions. Discussion will continue in Tokyo next year. Mireille Geering has replaced Peter Hag mann as Secretary of the group.

Alison Hall Chairman

Alison Hall Chairman

Project Group on ISBD (PM)

The ISBD (PM) Project Group held two meetings during the Amsterdam congress. The group

completed the review of the draft of the new edition so that the entire document can be submitted

for worldwide review at the end of the summer of 1987.

Heinz Lanzke

Vorsitzender

Heinz Lanzke

Vorsitzender

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