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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Dear colleagues,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I'm of two minds about a potentially useful (also, potentially stupid)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">descriptive phrase on headings or references for engravers, and I'd like to hear other perspectives</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">know I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">could shoot this question to Autocat, but would</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">like to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> hear</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">first</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">what those say who are likelier to have dealt with this and similar issues.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">When faced with a surname only followed with "sc</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ulp</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">." or variation</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> on something I'm cataloging</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, I can sometimes spend</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> quite</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> a long time figuring out</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">whether this person has already been established in NACO because I don't know his first name.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">My proposed remedy: make</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">a reference</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">on the NAR</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">from the surname</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">only</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">"sc." as</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">a descriptive phrase</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">so that someone scanning a heading result list would quickly zero in on the "sc</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">."</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">e</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">xample: 400 Starling,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">‡</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">c sc.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">You can</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">find</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">headings</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">already</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">established</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">in NACO</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> "sculp." used</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">as a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">n addition to a surname-only</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">heading</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">to break a conflict</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">example:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">100</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Andre,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">‡</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">c</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">culp.)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The problem of course is that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">"sc." and its</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">variations mean</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">"engraved it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">not</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">"engraver." </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">W</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ould it be appropriate to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">continue the practice of using the abbreviation of a Latin verb phrase as a descriptive phrase? Or would it be more appropriate to provide an English approximation of what "sculpsit" indicates rather than</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">using</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the phrase itself</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">e</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">xample: 100</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Rivers,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">‡</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">c engraver</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">). In any case, would it be helpful to provide cross references when</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">a name appears on works without a forename but with "sculp."?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">This has become a pressing topic for us since we're in the midst of a grant project to catalog and digitize</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">images relating to Shakespeare, and we'll be submitting lots of NARS for engravers.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.<BR>
Head of Catalogin</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">g<BR>
Folger Shakespeare Library<BR>
201 East Capitol St., S.E.<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20003<BR>
202.675-0369<BR>
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