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<font size=3>The rule concerning abbreviation ("give the name ... in
the shortest form in which it can be understood and identified
internationally") is 1.4D2, which stands. The deleted 1.4D4 was
"If the name ... appears in a recognizable form in the title and
statement of responsibility area, give it in the publication,
distribution, etc., area in the shortest possible form"--i.e.
"The Association", "The Museum"; i.e. it was an
exception to 1.4D2. The corresponding LCRI had authorized disregard of
the rule, which is inappropriate in a properly indexed database; and in
2002 we were finally and definitively put out of its misery.<br><br>
The examples in AACR2 2.16D,E are indeed transcribed as they appear, as
the rule states, and in this respect nothing has changed. (I think
they're intended to show that one neither contracts nor expands the
name.) Old 1.4D4 had nothing to do with it; one could infer from the
absence of anything corresponding to it that it was not applicable in the
rare book context. (DRCB 4C2 likewise tells us to transcribe the name
"as it appears", i.e. without abbreviation or other shortening,
and goes on to permit inclusion of imprint matter that 2.16D required to
be omitted.)<br><br>
At 11/6/02 03:35 PM, John Attig wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I have a question that has come up
about the rules for rare books at the end of Chapter 2 of
AACR2.<br><br>
In the 2002 revision of AACR2, rule 1.4D4 -- which authorized
abbreviation of the name of a publisher, etc. -- was deleted.<br><br>
It has been brought to my attention that several of the examples in AACR
rules 2.16D and E use what might be abbreviations for people's
names:<br><br>
London : R. Barker<br><br>
London : Printed for the author and sold by J. Roberts<br><br>
Birmingham : Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley
...<br><br>
London : Printed for the author and sold by J. Parsons [etc.]<br><br>
In some cases, I'm reasonably certain that the abbreviation is
transcribed accurately from the title page. However, I'm not sure
that this is always the case, or whether 2.16D and E are showing
conventional cataloger practice to abbreviate forenames.<br><br>
First question, do any of these examples in AACR2 need to be revised in
the light of the deletion of 1.4D4? Is it sufficient to agree that
the forename initials have been transcribed? Or should there be
more examples with full forenames to make it more clear that full
transcription is required?<br><br>
Second -- since this is the DCRB revision list -- are the DCRM rules (all
formats, I suppose) consistent with the basic AACR rules on transcribing
publisher information?; are the DCRM rules clear on what can be omitted
or abbreviated and whether/how such omissions or abbreviations should
indicated in the description?<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>John
Attig<br>
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