Section 4:
Do It Yourself
BOPCRIS
Tate
TNAUK
Walsall Centre
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TNAUK: hints & tips
How did you get on? You’ll find some points below to help you see
if you included all the data available and put it in the correct fields.
TNAUK - Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom
- Title - the title should be spelt out in full with the acronym provided
in parentheses after the name
E.g. Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom (TNUAK)
TNAUK offers a range of newspapers and magazines both nationally
and locally, by providing a postal service of audio cassette, computer
disk and CD-Rom, and electronic service via email, bulletin board and
website.
Subject areas covered: national and Sunday newspapers, business and
finance, computers, consumer magazines, countryside and wildlife, family
and home, food and wine, gardening, general, health and welfare, literary
and educational, music, politics and government, radio and television,
retirement, science and technology, sport and leisure, women, and world
travel.
- Concept: The keywords or subject descriptors listed under CONCEPT
should be selected from a recognised schema - best practice is Library
of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Level 1. The schema that is being
used should be acknowledged.
E.g. Gardening (LCSH)
TNAUK offers a range of newspapers and magazines both nationally
and locally, by providing a postal service of audio cassette, computer
disk and CD-Rom, and electronic service via email, bulletin board and
website.
Catalogues are available in audio, large print and electronic text file
versions.
- Physical Characteristics: Audio, computer disks and electronic text
- Collection Type: Collection.Library.Text.Sound - see list of collection
types at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/types/
- Legal status - there is no information about this in the text - but
you may want to do some research to find out - in this case the TNAUK
website states that it is a Registered charity so this has been included
- Catalogue: This can contain either a free text statement about the
catalogues, or be used as a repeatable field, one for each type of catalogue.
If there was enough information about the catalogues, collection description
records of them could also be created and linked to this collection
description record via these repeated fields.
Users are individuals with Doctor’s certificate of inability
to read in the normal way or photocopy of blind/partially sighted registration.
The national service is a subscription service while local tapes are free.
A service to libraries is available, charges on request.
TNAUK, National Recording Centre, 10 Browning Road, Heathfield, East
Sussex TN21 8DB
Postal service only. Customer services available 9am to 5pm Monday to
Friday, closed Bank Holidays. Out of hours voicemail available.
Tel: 01435 866102
Email: info@tnauk.org.uk
Website: http://www.tnauk.org.uk
- Location name: TNAUK
- Location Address:
- Country: uk - two-letter country code taken from ISO 3166 standard
- Access conditions: Free text indicating that this is a postal service
only.
- See also: http://www.tnauk.org.uk
- the URL should be included here and not under Locator. Locator is
used to refer to the online Location of a digital collection
- Tel.no:+44 1435 866102 - should always be entered using the international
format.
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