Music Cataloging at Yale Cataloging at Yale

• Cataloging information
  • Music cataloging at Yale
  • ALA CC:DA
  • Serials cataloging issues
  • LC Cataloging Policy & Support Office
  • Indiana University Music Library student's manual
  • Princeton's Catalog Division documentation
  • Library spot: Librarian's shelf
  • The future of cataloging
    • The Future of Cataloging by Dr. Deanna B. Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress
    • Responses from the Library of Congress Professional Guild, including:
      • The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries by Thomas Mann
  

• Organizations
  • Music Library Association
    • MLA Clearinghouse
    • MLA-L list archives
    • MLA Bibliographic Control Committee
  • Music OCLC Users Group
  • OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers)
    • Cataloging Policy Committee
  • NEMLA homepage
    • Music and film resources on the web for librarians: a presentation with Jim Farrington to the Central Connecticut Internet Round Table (no longer being maintained as of December 2008)
  • New England Technical Services Librarians
  

• Copyright (This section is not intended to be or to replace legal advice)
  • United States Copyright Office
  • Copyright law of the United States
  • Copyright for music librarians from the Music Library Association
  • The United States copyright law: a guide for music educators from MENC
  • The music we perform: an overview of royalties, rentals and rights; from the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association
  • Copyright & fair use from Stanford University
  • ALA's Copyright Advisory Network
  • How much of someone else's work can I use without getting permission? and other questions answered on this Library of Congress website
  • Copyright term and the public domain in the United States for unpublished works, works published in the US, and works published outside the US (from Cornell University), current from January 1, 2012.
  • Public domain music from PD Info (commercial site)
  • Copyright duration from Copyright Guru (commercial site)
  • Copyright FAQ (about copying published music) from the Music Publishers' Association (commercial site)
  • ASCAP search
  • BMI search
  • Humor (yes, there can be humor in copyright law)
    • A fair(y) use tale (a video on copyright law)
    • Bound by law: tales from the public domain (from Duke University Law)
    • The U.S. Copyright code, in verse with links to the relevant section of the full code
  

• Web design
  • Yale C/AIM Web style guide
  • How do they do that with HTML?

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Last revised April 25, 2012.