1. INTRODUCTION
Compact discs are the predominant type of sound recording collected by Fondren Library. The collection includes LPs, cassette and reel-to-reel tapes, and 78s but these are mostly obsolete mediae. Call numbers for sound recordings of music are entered in the Alma item record field Item call number type as Other scheme.
2. CALL NUMBERS FOR COMPACT DISCS AND CASSETTE TAPES
2.1 Compact discs
Compact disc music sound recordings have call numbers in the form “CD XXX-XXXX,” where the X’s represent the digits of the Alma assigned accession number.
2.2 Compact discs with accompanying booklets
When a compact disc consists of a compact disc and an accompanying booklet that is not laid in the container the compact disc receives a call number of CD XXX-XXXX with CD in the Description field of its item record and the accompanying booklet receives a call number of CD XXX-XXXX with TEXT in the description field of its item record.
2.3 Cassette tapes
Only in rare instances do we receive cassette tapes. The call number for a cassette tape of a musical performance is formed in the exact same way as a compact disc with the exception of the prefix being CASS, i.e., CASS XXX-XXXX.
3. CALL NUMBERS FOR SHEPHERD SCHOOL PERFORMANCES
3.1 Cassette tapes
We are no longer cataloging Shepherd School performances. All tapes (reel-to-reel and cassettes) and CDs are being digitized and moved to our digital archive in Dspace.
4. SOUND RECORDINGS RECEIVING LC CLASSIFICATION
Sound recordings of non-musical performances, e.g., books on tape, spoken recordings of plays, poetry, etc., and CDs of musical performances accompanying a monograph receive their call numbers according to LC classification practices.