Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials

Period of Performance

10/1/1976 - 3/31/1978

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


A Union Catalogue of Commerically Issued Pre-"LP" Classical Music and Spoken Sound Recordings; A Planned Study

FAIN: PM-10260-76

Association for Recorded Sound Collections (Annapolis, MD 21404-0543)
Gerald D. Gibson (Project Director: October 1976 to present)

To plan the creation of an international, standardized, computer-produced catalog of recordings from world-wide sources, concentrating in the first stage upon commercially issued classical music and spoken word pre-lp recordings presently held by the 6 largest recorded sound collections in North America.