• Pop Music Recordings and Related Ephemera at the British Library: Past, Present and Future Challenges

    Author(s):
    Ian Moore (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CityLIS
    Subject(s):
    Library science, Information science, Music libraries, Popular culture, Popular music
    Item Type:
    Dissertation
    Institution:
    CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON
    Tag(s):
    CityLIS, Library and information science, Popular Music Studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6CZ87
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how recorded pop music and related ephemera is managed within a library environment. The following work uses the British Library as a case study to show how a pop music collection is acquired, stored, and access is given to patrons. This is an important area for Library and Information Science research as recorded music is not covered by current UK Legal Deposit legislation. This leads ultimately to the problem of a lack of comprehensive coverage, which is exacerbated by the fact that many ephemeral items related to pop music, such as fanzines and posters, also do not come under the remit of legal deposit. The methods used in this study are three fold: Firstly, a literature review analysing articles and monographs dealing with issues of music collections in library environments; Secondly, comparing and contrasting the British Library pop music collections with three comparable national libraries in the form of the Library of Congress in the US, the National Library of Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket), and the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek); Thirdly, the author interviewed seven expert interviewees. All seven of the participants were employees of the British Library who work in various roles connected to the pop music collections. The results of the study did challenge the assumptions of the author, who felt at the start of the process that an expansion of Legal Deposit to include pop music was the best way to achieve better coverage of pop music releases and related works in the UK and Ireland.
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