A Swamp of Pseudonyms:The Expanding Authority

Record of Livingston Gearhart

Music OCLC Users Group Annual ConferenceFebruary 26, 2014, Atlanta, Georgia

Rebecca BelfordUniversity at Buffalo

rbelford@buffalo.edu

Livingston Gearhart (1916-1996)

Livingston Gearhart, Fred Waring, and Virginia Morley at the Gearharts’ farm in Pennsylvania. Photographer unidentified. State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library, Livingston Gearhart Collection of Photographs, image lg016. http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/ref/collection/LIB-MUS019/id/52

Livingston Gearhart

Fred Waring

VirginiaMorely

Gearhart NAR, freshly RDA-ed

Case 1. Orlando Coole

Bib record

Not 100% sure about using $k Selections here.

Authority record

LC-PCC: NO

DCM Z1, 663: Complex See Also Note

RDA reciprocal relationship designators?

Authority recordpseudonym 1

500/663 per LC-PCC/DCM Z1670 2: Emailed scan to his daughter, who said yes, it was her

father’s work (“Sounds like dad!”)

Case 2: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Evidence for Barry—Gearhart link?

NMP-L comes through!

Authority recordpseudonym 2

500/663 per LC-PCC/DCM Z1

Case 3: A Jingle-Bell Travelogue

Bib record

OK in RDA?

Gearhart AP; Minnie/Ben transcribed

Revised Gearhart NAR with referencesbasic heading

Thanks! Thanks to…

John Bewley (archivist, UB Music Library)for emailing Livingston Gearhart’s daughter about “Coole”

Mark Scharff (NMP) for NAR review

Valerie Weinberg (Music Division, LC) for pointing me to Copyright Catalog for Barry

Timothy Babcock (Fred Waring's America collection, Penn State)

for help investigating Barry-Gearhart link

More about Livingston GearhartLivingston Gearhart Archival Collections, University at Buffalo Music Library

http://library.buffalo.edu/music/special-materials/#archives

Livingston Gearhart Digital Collection, University at Buffalo Librarieshttp://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/LIB-MUS019

Sigh No More, Ladies

#49527562 Orlando Coole NAR no2014036808

Jingle-Bell Travelogue (SA)

#870305381

Jingle-Bell Travelogue (SATB)

#36385947

Rudolph (SATB) #870273799

A. Hawley Barry NAR no2014036810

Gearhart NAR n 91099116

OCLC numbers/LCCNs