Organisation of collections with pop- and rock music in Sweden : a matter of values?

The purpose of this paper is to examine different methods for organisation and retrieval of pop and rock music recordings, and the problems concerned with this organisation. The focus is the question whether values towards pop and rock music influence the organisation of music in major Swedish record collections. As a background for this discussion, the study also discusses how music is organised in these collections, and what kind of problems are associated with their organisation. Also included in the paper is a minor investigation of how problems with the organisation of pop and rock music are dealt with in library and information science, and how values towards pop and rock music are dealt with in society in general. The main focus of the study, however, is an empirical study of how values towards pop and rock music manifest themselves in the pop and rock organisation of six Swedish institutions with major collections of music recordings. Here, interviews with representatives from these institutions form the basis of an analysis and a discussion on these matters. One example of such values: classical music seems to be considered more important than pop and rock music. Furthermore, the value of pop music seems to be lower than that of rock music. These values are most explicit in the libraries in the study, which all use the Swedish classification system, Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek.Uppsatsnivå: