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Putting the Music Catalogue Online: Part 3 – What this project will do for you!

16th October 20208th January 2021 Kirsty Morgan

In our previous two blogs of the series we gave you a general overview of the Music Retroconversion Project that the National Library is currently working on, followed by a discussion of some of the different cards we’ve been converting and the challenges these have posed. This final blog describes the benefits the project will […]

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Putting the Music Catalogue Online: Part 2 – So many cards, so many challenges!

9th October 20209th October 2020 Kirsty Morgan

In our previous blog of this series, we gave you a general overview of the Music Retoconversion Project that the National Library is currently working on. Here we will discuss some of the different cards we’ve been converting and the challenges these have posed. The catalogues contain two types of cards: regular bibliographic cards with […]

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Putting the Music Catalogue Online: Part 1 – Project Background

2nd October 20209th October 2020 Kirsty Morgan

The National Library is working on a project to transfer its music card catalogues to the library’s online catalogue. Up until now, to search for music materials, users had the option of physically searching the Main Music Card Catalogue in the reading rooms, or they could phone the library and the librarians would check through […]

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