The Organization

WZBT 91.1FM Gettysburg is a student-run radio station on the Gettysburg College campus in Pennsylvania. The station started in 1948 as an AM station, WWGC, with a few thousand dollars and 300 vinyl records. By 1976, the station had outgrown the AM waves and became WZBT. The station now has about 40 DJ’s broadcasting weekly on FM airwaves and worldwide on the Internet.

Information NeedThe radio station owns

hundreds of CDs that have no way to be searched. Large portions of the collection have become unused – or used far below their potential—because they have never been cataloged.

Our Solution

An Integrated Library System and Online Public Access Catalog

•Use open source software program Koha to organize music collection•Searchable by anyone with an Internet connection

WZBT’s music shelves. Music is arranged alphabetically, but there is no way to know what is there without physically looking through them.

Benefits

•Increase searchability so that the users can quickly get the information they’re seeking•User-friendly access points such as song title, artist, album, or genre•DJ’s will make better use of the entire collection—and may receive better demo submissions•Open source system is easy to use and maintain•Records can be edited specifically for the station’s needs•Ability to add Web 2.0 features—such as tagging—at the station’s discretion

Implementation Plan

•Work with LibLime to get Koha catalog and OPAC running•Train student workers on how to copy-catalog, tailoring the records for WZBT’s specific system •Train a few specific workers on original cataloging practices

Lindley Homol

Kaitlyn Lyons

Amanda Manley

Erin Miller

The process for adding a record to Koha

We gratefully acknowledge WZBT, Koha, and the University of Pittsburgh for the use of images.

The end-user search process