[DCRM-L] Cataloging of single leaves
Lenore Rouse
rouse at cua.edu
Tue Apr 6 13:16:35 MDT 2010
I have wrestled with this problem on several occasions and wished there
was more guidance in the rules. I do think it is important to state at
the outset that you have a fragment of some sort. When I looked at how
other catalogers dealt with the problem, I found considerable variation,
so pretty much comped together my own standard, with a
cataloger-supplied title of [Detached leaf of....]. See OCLC 297529215
for an example. I guess the question is knowing how to draw a line
between a record for a fragment and a record for a whole which is
imperfect.
best
Lenore
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Lenore M. Rouse
Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections
Adjunct Professor, School of Library and Information Science
The Catholic University of America
Room 214, Mullen Library
620 Michigan Avenue N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20064
PHONE: 202 319-5090
E-MAIL: rouse at cua.edu
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