International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts

Société Internationale des Bibliothèques et des Musées des Arts du Spectacle

Actes du XIVe Congrès International des Bibliothèques et des Musées des Arts du Spectacle

Beograd 15-20 septembre 1980.

Beograd : 1982.

ISSN 0361-7500

1. the exchange of information on the development of automation;
2. the treatment of documents in preparation for an international data bank;
3. regular meetings to exchange information and compare notes.

1. TANDEM: Bayreuth collected information on all international world premieres of the lyric theatre. There was no critical selection and the description was entirely free of any critical element. In 282 productions there were entries for 4000 roles, 80 work titles, 70 objects and 5 artists;
2. in Genoa there was a catalogue of microfilms and microfiches relating to the Italian theatre of the 19th and 20th centuries;
3. in London the computer was being used to catalogue about 9000 prints. Retrieval was instantaneous, but the input took time and with about one hour per print there was 4 years work in hand;
4. Austria was working out a TANDEM system for Vienna;
5. in the USA. it took almost twenty years to computerise the Dance Collection in the Lincoln Center. The Dance Collection was the first project and chosen because it was the smallest collection. Now work had begun on the Theater Collection. OSU had collated microfilms and other documents; these have been adequately catalogued and recently a computer and a typewriter had been purchased for use within the Collection. The What is Where project was temporarily in abeyance: the problem was two-fold, 
   1) lack of government support, and 
   2) internal dificulties within the Department;
6. Canada: since 1966 Montreal has had a documentary collection within Quebec of all theatrical activities. There were 3000 entries in the first volume: prints, press cuttings, photographs, audio-visual material and texts, plus an analysis of each document;
7. in France the project was run by the Department of Performing Arts and CRNS and called CREDAS. The permanent store of theatrical productions listed some 600-800 given each year, catalogued according to TANDEM for eventual transfer to the computer.¹

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