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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Deborah<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'>Yes, I’ve cataloged more than one book with an asterism. It took a while to find the correct term, but it’s in Robinson’s Dictionary of Graphical Symbols (London, 1972). A most useful book. <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'>Nina<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'><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'>Nina M. Schneider<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Head Cataloger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>William Andrews Clark Memorial Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>2520 Cimarron Street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Los Angeles, CA 90018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(323) 731-8529<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'><a href="mailto:nschneider@humnet.ucla.edu"><span style='color:blue'>nschneider@humnet.ucla.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/</span></a><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'><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'><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"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah J. Leslie<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 29, 2011 6:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List<br><b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Asterism<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868'>This is going around on facebook just now: there’s a name for the pyramid of three asterisks: asterism. We can use it in signature statements instead of trying to describe it, a la “[three asterisks in a pyramid]” .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868'><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed">http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_%28typography%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_%28typography%29</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#215868'>Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#215868'><a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu"><span style='color:#215868;text-decoration:none'>djleslie@folger.edu</span></a> | 202.675-0369 | <a href="http://www.folger.edu">www.folger.edu</a></span><span style='color:#215868'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>