Just use accession numbers and be done with it, dudes! Gary
> Barbara! Just curious: *Brokeback Mountain* is categorized as an Asian > film because Ang Lee comes > from Taiwan. Do you handle in the same manner all the many films made > by all the many directors who have > come from abroad and established themselves as Hollywood directors? Are > *Psycho* and *Vertigo* classed as British > films because Hitchcock came from the U.K.? *The Apartment* and *Sunset > Boulevard* classed as Polish cinema because > Billy Wilder was born in (what is now) Poland? And all the American > films directed by Fred Zinnemann, Ernest Lubitsch, Fritz > Lang, Douglas Sirk, Otto Preminger, etc., etc.? I don't know but some > people might find it /amusant /that Zinnemann's* quintessential* > American musical *Oklahoma!* might be considered to be an Austrian > movie...? > > > Just curious.... > > Cheers, > Anthony > > ******************************* > Anthony E. Anderson > Social Studies and Arts & Humanities Librarian > Von KleinSmid Library > University of Southern California > Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 > (213) 740-1190 antho...@usc.edu > "Wind, regen, zon, of kou, > Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou." > ********************************* > > > > > > > > Bergman, Barbara J wrote: > >>Matt, >> >>We have our DVDs and videos classed by LC numbers. >>Pros: does get them ordered by subject, making them browseable. Con: Yes, >> call numbers tend to be too similar. Would not recommend LC for closed >> stacks. >> >>Something we (meaning: the AV cataloger, not me) did here was to class >> the feature films within the literature schedule, using Director as >> Author. >>You still have a whole lotta P's, but it spaces them out and away from >> PN1997. >>*Organization is by Country of origin of the director, Director, Title. >>Result is that films are essentially sorted by language and then >> alphabetized by director's name. (Occasional goofiness: Brokeback >> Mountain is filed with the Asian films because Ang Lee directed.)* >>TV shows are still clustered together. >> >>Another option for you might be to use something like the ANSCR music >> classification system -- >>It uses abbreviations to class by genre and then artist/composer. >> >>Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota >> State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu >> >> > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
