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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=145142914-13032008>A
decade ago when I was employed at another institution I had the privilege of
cataloging a large number (hundreds) of academic disputations from the 16th-18th
centuries. At that time I added what seemed to be the standardly used fields of
502 and 655 (Academic dissertation) to the records. Recently, here at HUC, I did
another stack of same. AACR2 never was very specific about cataloging these, and
DCRM(B) doesn't seem to add much. It has occurred to me that as genre
terms go, "Academic dissertation" does not seem the most appropriate term for
these. It makes me think of a modern dissertation which clearly is
something quite different from these early disputations. Researchers
interested in these early disputations as a group would clearly not be
interested in having to search a long list of modern dissertations to find them.
Am I missing something obvious? Does anyone have a suggestion of a better
way to isolate such records for easy retrieval?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=145142914-13032008>Thanks.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=145142914-13032008>Dan
Rettberg</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=145142914-13032008>Rare
Book and Manuscript Bibliographer</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=145142914-13032008>Klau
Library<BR>Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=145142914-13032008>Cincinnati, Ohio</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
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