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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Allison. At the moment, I'm only asking about this particular exception because it affects the current draft of DCRM(G).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Issues such as pagination statements will be taken up by the group that was constituted by the Bibliographic Standards Committee at Annual to formulate recommendations regarding RDA’s impact on DCRM, and I assume they will be seeking input from the larger community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> EB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Allison Rich<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Eliminating an RDA option in DCRM(G) draft: want to allow "i.e." and "[sic]"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Erin:<br><br>I heartily approve of these exceptions to the rule but I would like an exception with the pagination statements too.<br>I would like to retain the convention of bracketed paging to reflect unnumbered pages.<br><br>[sic] and i.e. are vital for my cataloguing work here at the John Carter Brown Library.<br>And I would hate to not be able to use them.<br><br>Will there be a forum to weigh on such matters as the implementation of RDA gets closer?<br>Because we would also like to take part in this.<br><br>~Allison<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As you may know, the DCRM(G) draft incorporates some boxed "RDA alternatives" in cases where standard RDA convention differs from AACR2 (e.g. "RDA alternative: Use 'diameter' instead of the abbreviation 'diam.'") and there are no rare materials or graphic materials reasons to differ (as suggested by Barbara Tillett and others, and approved in principle by the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee, in order for DCRM(G) to be a transitional manual).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the draft reviewed for the public hearing, we included the RDA alternative "Do not follow inaccuracies with '[sic]' or 'i.e.' and the correction in square brackets. Instead, make a note correcting the inaccuracy (RDA 1.7.9)." HOWEVER, further work has convinced us we DO need "[sic]" and "i.e." in transcriptions, for various reasons, including:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>a) "Precise representation" (DCRM III.2.2.) is key for sophisticated special collections users and "i.e." and "[sic]" provide quality-assurance that the representation is precise<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>b) Unintentionally incorrect information is not infrequent in graphic materials, which are not "self describing" the way books with title pages are, and such inaccuracies need immediate correction in order to make sense to users. For example, the image at <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19657">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19657</a> was wrongly titled "Royal Palace, Warsaw" by the news agency that created it; it actually depicts the Kremlin, so its title according to DCRM(G) should be "Royal Palace, Warsaw [i.e. Kremlin Palace, Moscow]" <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>c) Title and imprint information commonly get pulled out for image databases and picture captioning, so we need a complete package in those areas; moving corrections to the notes splits information that needs to stay assembled for user convenience<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thoughts? Comments?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Erin (Chair, DCRM(G) Editorial Team)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Erin C. Blake, Ph.D. | Curator of Art & Special Collections | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 E. Capitol St. SE | Washington, DC 20003-1004 | office tel. (202) 675-0323 | fax: (202) 675-0328 | <a href="mailto:eblake@folger.edu">eblake@folger.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.folger.edu">www.folger.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>********************************<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx"<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Allison Rich<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Catalogue Librarian<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>John Carter Brown Library<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Providence, Rhode Island<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Allison_Rich@brown.edu">Allison_Rich@brown.edu</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>******************************** <o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>