The Raine referral database is an electronic catalogue listing the phonographic holdings of the Tunisian National Sound Archive.
Documents will only be communicated upon request, to researchers providing proof as to their research project. This holding includes documents entered in the Sound Archive by legal deposit, acquisition, transfer, collection in the field, archiving of the CAMM’s musical activities, donation or exchange.
The Ranine database can be searched either on the premises, with a terminal made available to researchers in the National Sound Archive’s reading room or by internet (at the address of this site).
Raine database search advice
Queries can be entered either in upper or in lower case, with or without accents, with or without hyphens.
For documents in Arabic, searching has to be done in this language until the transcription operation is completed. The search criteria are as follows:
Title: enter one or several words
Author/performer: enter the last name, either the first name or both separated by a space.
The author can be the composer or the song writer.
The subject of the document is described using terms figuring in a set list where the choice of terms and their combination obey predetermined rules.
Consultation
Sound documents are listened to in listening booths, depending on their availability.
In case the four booths are occupied, a booth may be reserved for a future date to be determined in agreement with the audio librarian assigned to the reference room. Only one person at a time may consult a sound document. A headset is available for listening. In order to ensure the preservation of the original format, only the substitute copy may be consulted if it exists. If such a copy does not exist, consultation must be postponed until a substitute copy is made by the Sound Archive studio, upon payment of a contribution fee fixed by the CAMM.
