Cataloging and subject indexing the Bialik Collection

2017年，汉诺威音乐、戏剧和媒体大学（HMTMH）图书馆获得了大量私人收藏，其中大部分是与音乐相关的俄语媒体。由于它的前主人，音乐学家Michail Bialik教授，它被称为“Bialik收藏”。虽然部分藏品可以追溯到两次世界大战之间的时期，甚至是沙皇时代，但它主要包括苏联和后苏联时期出版的印刷品（书籍、期刊、乐谱）和1945年以后出版的唱片，以及少数来自其他国家的物品。这样的馆藏在德国的专门图书馆中是独一无二的。在国家层面上，可能只有柏林和慕尼黑国家图书馆的资源超过了它，在那里，俄罗斯音乐文学作为特别收藏的一部分获得了丰富的资源。Bialik馆藏的一大特点是，从1910年到2015年，大量的俄罗斯和苏联音乐会和歌剧演出的印刷节目单，这是任何德国图书馆都无法比拟的。这些稀有物品大多来自莫斯科和列宁格勒音乐生活的中央机构，但也有许多物品超出了这个范围，比如首都和其他苏联城市的小型机构的节目说明。定期举办的音乐节，如列宁格勒音乐之春，以及苏联作曲家组织的个人音乐会都有很好的记录。为了在2021年之前在HMTMH图书馆内完全开放，所有资源必须正式编目，并根据其内容进行编目。该过程完成后，就可以通过图书馆的OPAC为所有集合的项目下订单。图书、乐谱和期刊的书目描述在免费访问的联合目录K10plus中完成。节目单中的书目说明将在互联网平台musicon .performance上发布。这是一个合作使用的，免费访问的联盟目录，目前由萨克森州立图书馆（SLUB）和音乐学专业信息服务（FID Musikwissenschaft）开发；预计将于2019年8月推出。在HMTMH及其图书馆内，Bialik的收藏为研究俄罗斯和苏联音乐史创造了极好的条件。在不久的将来，它可能会以一年一度的暑期学校或类似的形式将国际研究人员聚集在一起。在这样的框架下，集合的资源将形成一个额外的吸引力，音乐学家专门从事该领域：对他们来说，暑期学校不仅提供空间听和讨论彼此的论文，而且还提供了充分的可能性源阅读和稀有材料的研究，如前面提到的节目笔记集。为了实现这个想法，我们希望尽快完成馆藏编目的过程。

In 2017 the library of Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH) was able to acquire a large private collection of mostly Russian-language media related to music. With reference to its former proprietor, the musicologist Prof. Michail Bialik, it is called the ‚Bialik Collection‘. While some parts of the collection date back to the interwar period and even to czarist times, it mainly comprises Soviet and post-Soviet prints (books, journals, sheet music) and recordings published after 1945, as well as a minor number of items from other countries. Such a collection is unique among German special libraries. On the national level it is probably only surpassed by the resources of the Berlin and Munich State Libraries, where Russian Literature on Music has been acquired in abundance as part of special collections.A fine feature of the Bialik Collection not rivalled by any German Library is a voluminous convolute of printed programme notes pertaining to Russian and Soviet concerts and opera performances from 1910 to 2015. Most of these rare items come from the central institutions in Moscow‘s and Leningrad’s musical life, but there are many items that go beyond that scope, such as programme notes from smaller institutions of the capitals and other soviet cities. Periodic music festivals such as the Leningrad Musical Spring are well documented, as are individual concerts organised by the Soviet Union of Composers.To be made fully accessible within the Library of the HMTMH by 2021, all resources must be catalogued formally and with regard to their contents. After that process is finished, it will be possible to place orders for all the collection’s items via the library’s OPAC. The bibliographic description of books, sheet music and periodicals is done within the freely accessible union catalogue K10plus. Bibliographic descriptions of the items in the programme note collection will be published on the internet platform musiconn.performance. This is a cooperatively used, freely accessible Union catalogue currently being developed by the State Library of Saxony (SLUB) and the Specialised Information Service Musicology (FID Musikwissenschaft); its launch is expected for August, 2019.Within the HMTMH and its library, the Bialik collection creates excellent conditions for research on Russian and Soviet music history. In the near future it may serve to bring international researchers together in an annual summer school or a similar format. Within such a framework, the collection’s resources will form an additional point of attraction for musicologists specialising in that field: For them, the summer school will not only provide the space for listening to and discussing each other’s papers, but in addition give ample possibility for source reading and the study of rare materials like the aforementioned programme note collection. To realize this idea, we hope to finish the process of cataloging the collection as soon as possible.