SPECIAL KING’S BUSINESS "HOW TO DO IT” FEATURE Part II
THE CATALOGING OF
AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS
Filmstrips and Slides FiSt The Bible through the cen turies (Filmstrip) A1 Christian Education Press, 1952. 60 fr., col., 35 mm. This indicates that the strip is the first in a box or drawer lettered “A ” and has 60 frames, is in color, and is the customary size. Subject headings are assigned in the same manner as for books. If the category is to be desig nated the subhead, FILMSTRIPS, can be added. The designation for black and white filmstrips, as used by the Library of Congress, is b&w. If one cares to record all strips from a given producer a secondary card should be made for the producer. The following entry will show this, as well as a series entry and script note. FiSt Abraham and Isaac (Film strip) E7 Alexark & Norsim, 1955. 26 fr., b&w, 35 mm. (Pa triarchs of Israel) Script. For slide sets a similar pattern is used. Here we can use the same
numerical sequence or we can classi fy. In the latter case we shall need a filing case that will permit insertion and rearrangement without moving every slide. Sets are easily kept in boxes, however. An example of an entry for a set would be: Sli F l o w e r s o f P a l e s t i n e F66p Matson Photo Service. (Slide set) 10 slides, 2x2 inches, color. Here we have used an alphabetical arrangement, indicating this by the use of a Cutter (or author) number for the subject, which in this instance is the same as the first word of the title. The letter “p” will further divide flowers slides by country, or in any other manner desired. If the serial arrangement is preferred the number will be used instead of this formula. Some would like to classify slides according to the Dewey decimal or some other system, but this can get somewhat involved. Each library will have to decide for itself.
Filmstrips and slides are among the more easily cataloged audio-visual materials. The form follows that for motion pictures. A second preliminary edition of Rules for Descriptive Cata loging in the Library of Congress: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips was used in 1953. So far as we know a definitive edition has not yet ap peared. As in all audio-visual entries a category phrase is used to indicate the medium. Due to the nature of the material the title is more significant than the producer. There is usually no author as such for this kind of ma terial. A location symbol and a num ber can be used if a call number is desired. As in the case of some other audio-visual materials it is probably better to file filmstrips in the order of acquisition assigning a serial number to each. Instead of the name of the producer and the number of the strip, if given, is used with the date of pro duction or copyright. The collation is also adapted to this form. A typical entry looks like this:
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JULY, 1959
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