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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I haven’t read Windy’s study
yet, but I’d like to comment about the fact that a lot of records coded “core”
actually meet standards for full level. I’ve experimented with
using the DCRB core standard for some of my books, with the addition of a
signature statement. When I do this, I often start out coding for core,
with the best of intentions, but end up adding a note or two I hadn’t
planned on (because it’s easy, or because I’m lacking in the
requisite self-discipline), and then I find myself wondering whether I’ve
reached full level. It seems easy to know when you’ve fulfilled the
requirements for core, but somehow harder to recognize when you’ve passed
beyond core to full level, probably because the requirements for full-level
vary, depending on the book in hand. I actually find this to be a problem
with using the DCRB core standard. Maybe I just need to review the books core
standards, and keep more clearly in mind all the ways they differ from full level.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Further, eliminating optional notes in the
DCRB (or DCRM(B)) standard should not technically affect whether cataloging is
full-level or not, should it? Yet eliminating optional notes is one of
the main recommendations of the DCRB core standard. I wonder how many
rare book catalogers may code a record “4” as a way of letting colleagues
know that options have not been taken; that is, the record may be
technically full level, but falls far short of the treatment they would like to
give the book. That’s not what the DCRB standard is for, yet I
myself feel tempted to use it that way.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Elaine Shiner, Head Cataloguer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>William Andrews Clark Memorial Library<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Email: <a
href="mailto:shiner@humnet.ucla.edu">shiner@humnet.ucla.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Phone: 323-731-8529<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Fax: 323-731-8617<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu
[mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Deborah J. Leslie<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, February 27, 2006
12:29 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [DCRM-L] DCRB Core</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have just finished reading Windy Lundy's excellent, thorough analysis
of the use of DCRB Core in the bibliographic utilities. I highly recommend it: <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Library Resources & Technical Services</font></i></em>,
v.50:1 (2006:Jan ), p. 42-57<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>DCRM(B) has taken over Appendix C on core records from DCRB; I don't
think it's been changed very much. Windy's article got me thinking about a
couple of things.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I wonder if the 502 dissertation note and the 505 formatted contents
should be "Mandatory if applicable"? They are right now, but
their relative importance eludes me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>It sounded like many of the bibliographic records in Windy's study
coded "core" actually met standards for full level. Perhaps Windy or
those who use DCRB core can comment on this. Is there something DCRM(B) can or
should do, or the Bib Standards Committee can or should do, to promote use of
the core standard and/or make it more viable? Or have we fulfilled our duty by
making it available for those few institutions who want to use it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Palatino Linotype"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype"'>Deborah J. Leslie,
M.A., M.L.S.<br>
Head of Cataloging<br>
Folger Shakespeare Library<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">201 East Capitol St., SE</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">DC</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20003</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
202.675-0369<br>
<a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu">djleslie@folger.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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