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Thanks everyone for your thoughts. 

To be clear, I'm not cataloging the items in question so much as I am describing them in a finding aid. So repeating fields of subject headings, helpful as they are, would be access points in this case. And, while I certainly want to take advantage of controlled vocab, people arrive at our finding aids via Google, Online Archive of California , etc. more often than they do by searching the University's OPAC for subject headings. 

In the interest of documenting this for folks down the road: So far, I have the recorded sound component of the collection separated in to four categories (broadcast, monitoring, music, and off-air) with "monitoring" describing literally the monitoring of state radio stations during wartime and "off-air" describing raw recordings very likely intended for broadcast but, as yet, unedited or otherwise prepared for that purpose. A fifth and final category is needed to describe the content that is the subject of this thread: station ID's and opening-/closing-music for multiple programs. The broadcaster in question did/does not play third-party commercials or donor announcements so using terms that imply advertising is tricky. 

Of the suggestions, "Promos (Radio commercials)" and "Jingles (advertising songs)" are closest to what I'm looking for. I take "interstitials" to include, among other things, short-form dramatic and documentary content. The Canadian Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-808 , for example, defines "interstitials" as " Programs with a running time of less than 5 minutes, exclusive of advertising and other interstitial material, consisting of material that can be described under categories 2 to 11," with categories 2-11 being, among other things, "Religion (4)," "Sports (6)," "Drama and Comedy (7)," etc. That sounds like honest-to-goodness programming to me, just short in duration. 

Leaning towards a "Promos and jingles" series designation and this point since it includes two instances of controlled vocab (LC). In addition, I like the idea of including "jingles" since it appears to be a UK/EU/CIS-friendly term. 


Thanks again everyone, 
Brandon 

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Brandon Burke 
Archivist for Recorded Sound Collections 
Hoover Institution Library and Archives 
Stanford University 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jennifer Vaughn" <[log in to unmask]> 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 6:13:31 AM 
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cataloging term for broadcast jingles/breaks/IDs? 

There is the LCSH: 
Jingles (Advertising songs) 

Used for things about jingles and the jingles themselves in our current 
hybrid system. 

Jennifer Vaughn 
Cataloging and Acquisitions 
Syracuse University Libraries 


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Thom <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 

> I suppose a new term could be proposed that would be a narrower term to 
> Promos (Radio commercials) 
> 
> Thom 
> On Aug 2, 2014 1:34 PM, "Nelson-Strauss, Brenda" <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote: 
> 
> > This form/genre term appears to be geared towards spoken announcements. 
> It 
> > does seem as though a separate term should exist for Jingles, which at 
> > least in my mind specifically relates to musical promos. Or at the very 
> > least Promos (Radio commercials)should be broadened to include Jingles 
> (in 
> > 455 and 670). Or is the broader term Radio commercials perhaps a more 
> > accurate place to include jingles? Hmmmmm . . . 
> > 
> > Brenda Nelson-Strauss 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto: 
> > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Thom 
> > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 11:06 AM 
> > To: [log in to unmask] 
> > Subject: Re: Cataloging term for broadcast jingles/breaks/IDs? 
> > 
> > What exists currently in the radio/sound recording terms for the Library 
> > of Congress Genre/Form Thesaurus for such a form/genre is: 
> > Promos (Radio commercials). That should fit what you're talking about. 
> > Add the terms as a term (if you're making a MARC record, code it 655 
> > _7 and add $2 lcgft after the term in a bibliographic record. 
> > 
> > 155__ |a Promos (Radio commercials) 
> > 455__ |a Promo announcements, Radio 
> > 455__ |a Promotional announcements, Radio 455__ |a Promotional spots, 
> > Radio 455__ |a Radio promo announcements 455__ |a Radio promos 
> > (Commercials) 455__ |a Radio promotional announcements 455__ |a Radio 
> > promotional spots 
> > 555 _ |w g |a Radio commercials 
> > 
> > 
> > USAGE: 
> > 670__ |a The concise encyclopedia of American radio, 2010: |b p. 7 
> > (station promotional announcements (promos)) 670__ |a About.com: Radio 
> WWW 
> > site, Apr. 22, 2010 |b (Promo: an announcement, live or pre-recorded, 
> which 
> > promotes an upcoming event, promotes the station image, promotes the 
> > results of a past event, or promotes any other event which benefits the 
> > station’s image or 
> > activities) 
> > 670__ |a LC database search, Apr. 22, 2010 |b (promos; radio promos; 
> promo 
> > announcements; promotional announcements) SCOPE NOTE: 
> > 680__ |i This heading is used as a genre/form heading for radio 
> > announcements promoting a particular radio station, upcoming programming 
> > from a station, or events sponsored or supported by a station. 
> > 
> > Thom Pease 
> > Library of Congress 
> > (not an official message thereof) 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Chuck Howell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> > > I believe the term "bumper" is still used in radio to describe these 
> > short brand-building bits. They aren't as common on TV as they once 
> were. 
> > > 
> > > Chuck 
> > > 
> > > Chuck Howell, CA 
> > > Collection Leader 
> > > Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture Hornbake Library North, RM 
> > > 3210 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 
> > > 
> > > phone - 301-314-0401 
> > > fax - 301-314-2634 
> > > [log in to unmask] 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ________________________________________ 
> > > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List 
> > > [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Brandon Burke 
> > > [[log in to unmask]] 
> > > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 4:18 PM 
> > > To: [log in to unmask] 
> > > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Cataloging term for broadcast jingles/breaks/IDs? 
> > > 
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > Question for the catalogers in the room: is there a term for the short 
> > jingles/breaks/IDs used by broadcasters? I'm in the middle of a finding 
> aid 
> > right now and need to account for these as a category. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance and have a great weekend, Brandon 
> > > 
> > > P.S. You may see this on more than one listserv. Apologies for 
> > cross-posting. 
> > > 
> > > --------------------------- 
> > > Brandon Burke 
> > > Archivist for Recorded Sound Collections Hoover Institution Library 
> > > and Archives Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6010 
> > > vox: 650.724.9711 
> > > fax: 650.725.3445 
> > > email: [log in to unmask] 
> > 
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