Cost Estimate
To receive a free cost estimate for cataloging services, please send us an email (musicmetadatasolutions@gmail.com) with the as many of the following details that you can specify. Estimates are acceptable.
- Name of Institution
- Catalog Website
- Your Name
- Your Title
- Your Email Address
- Your Phone Number
- Brief description of the project (including the number of titles to be cataloged)
- Does the project include copy as well as original cataloging (indicate the percentage of each)
- Formats that will be used, and approximate percentage in each format (books, scores, sound recordings, video recordings, etc.)
- Does the project require target and overlay of existing brief records in the catalog?
- 9xx fields to add to record
- Languages represented
- Is authority control required
- What physical processing is required
- How you want the cataloged records returned to you, for example:
- OCLC files sent by email
- Export directly into local catalog (requires installation of library client onto Flourish computer)
- FTP
- Library automation system used at the institution
- Other comments or questions
Typical Flourish Projects
- Cataloging current receipts in music. In one scenario, 3,000 score and sound recording titles are cataloged annually; for two other universities, 1,000 score and sound recording titles are cataloged annually; in another situation, Flourish catalogs all current receipts of Finnish books on music; for a small university, Flourish catalogs approximately 100 score titles annually.
- Cataloging backlogs. For a university in the Southeast, cataloging a backlog of 2600 musical scores and sound recordings; for an East-coast university, cataloging 400 books about music, with 125 of the books in Slavic languages.
- Cataloging gift collections. For a university in the Southwest, cataloging a collection of 600 opera vocal scores; or for the same university, cataloging a gift collection of thousands of score titles for strings.