are, High Fidelity and Musical America, and Hi-Fi News and Record Review provide reviews for assistance in choosing sound recordings (Bryant1985 , 332-337). Indeed, Mr. Bryants work itself is an excellent source for advice on building music library collections. As well, academic music librarians inhabit a space on the Internet in the form of the MLA-L listserv where they share ideas of all sorts, including asking advice in the area of collection development.Academic music librarians who work as catalogers make use of a number of sources to accomplish this difficult and necessary task. Documents supporting standardized cataloging rules like AACR2 are invaluable to the cataloger of music. The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) allows for cooperative cataloging of materials and has been the single most important advance in the area of cataloging of both music and non-music materials. Research Libraries Group (RLG) provides a similar function. (Papakhian, 19-20) The Music Cataloging Bulletin is another invaluable tool for the music cataloger. Here again, music librarians are an active online community sharing thoughts about the more difficult questions of cataloging via, chiefly, MLA-L as well as other listservs. Online sources have become essential tools for the music cataloger. The OCLC homepage (www.oclc.org) and the USMARC homepage (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/) are chief among these online resources. There are other online sources such as the Online Audio Visual Catalogers (OLAC) web page (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/) which are also vital (Sibley Music Library Technical Services 2001).Academic music librarians as instructors are quite common. This service provided to the schools and conservatories served by music libraries is expected and indeed necessary for the students and faculty. (Troutman 2000, 58-60). To assist them as well as their students, the academic music librarian will find the Director...
