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color:#1F497D'>Richard's reply is well worth reading. I think Henry Raine's
points, too, deserve more prominence. The more needlessly complex certain
actions are--in this case, turning away from a compact and relatively easily
parse-able statement about how many leaves a book has and what that book says
about how many leaves it has, towards something with lots of verbiage that makes
it harder to create and harder to read—the more we open ourselves to
mistakes and the greater necessity for additional proofreading, all
simultaneous with shrinking staffs, as Brian Hillyard has pointed out. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I know not every place is like the Folger, but I sometimes receive
specific questions about minute details on our cataloging records. [Here is an
excerpt from one awaiting my attention: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>In one of the copies of the 1589
edition that the Folger holds there are two versions of Jerome Bowes' account
of his embassy to Russia, with similar pagination (pp. 491-496 and pp.
491-501). The first seems to have been pasted in, whereas the second looks like
its part of the print run for this edition. The first is the original account
of Bowes himself, the other is an anonymous third person account of his
embassy.] <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Richard is asking the right questions. <i>Why</i> do we own rare
materials? <i>Who</i> is using them? For <i>what</i>? Are they finding what
they need? If so, <i>how</i>? If not, <i>why</i> not? It is only within the
context of these questions and the answers to them that we, the rare materials
cataloging community, can intelligently approach our response to RDA, and how much
of its lead we will follow as the base cataloging source from which our rules
are drawn.</span><span style='font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
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color:#1F497D'>_________________________</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <br>
</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. <br>
RBMS past chair 2010-2011 | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library <br>
201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003 | 202.675-0369 <br>
djleslie@folger.edu | <a href="http://www.folger.edu/">http://www.folger.edu</a>
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