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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Erin, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here’s a stab at it: maybe it’s because some OPAC’s may not display notes well, and DCRM wants people to be able to determine quickly whether the record represents the edition they’re looking for.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">On the other hand, if it’s a multi-volume, DCRM(b) 5B17.2 allows you to use “3 v.” in the 300 and then spell out the pagination in more detail in a note. So maybe it makes more sense to say you could keep the
300 simpler for all works, as you’re proposing. <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">Ted Gemberling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">UAB Lister Hill Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">(205)934-2461<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>Erin Blake<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 17, 2012 1:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM-L (dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Statement of extent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Advance warning: this message is not about what RDA should or shouldn’t say (hence the new subject line), it’s an honest question from someone who comes to Rare Book cataloging via Graphic Materials cataloging).<br>
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Why does the traditional bibliographic statement of extent go beyond “extent” to include the numbering of that extent? Why not put the (sometimes lengthy) pagination/foliation in a note, the way signatures are handled, and have the entire 300 field be non-transcribed?
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<p class="MsoNormal">For recent publications, it’s pretty easy to figure out about how long the book will be (e.g. “368 p.”). But when I see “[18], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 [i.e. 399], [1] p.” I can’t grasp
much more than “gee, it’ll be a pretty thick book.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d really rather have the best of both worlds:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">300 __ $a 766 p. $b 1 portr. (engraving) ; $c 35 cm (fol.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">500 __ $a Pagination: [18], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 [i.e. 399], [1].<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">500 __ $a Signatures: [superscript pi]A<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>([superscript pi]A1+1, [superscript pi]A5+1.2), A-2B<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>, 2C², a-g<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>,
[superscript chi]2g<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁸</span>, h-v<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>, x<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁴</span>, "gg3.4"(±"gg3"), [par.]-2[par.]<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>,
3[par.]1, 2a-2f<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>, 2g², "Gg<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>", 2h<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>, 2k-3b<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies if the pagination doesn’t actually add up to 766; you get my drift.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Erin. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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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> | <a href="http://collation.folger.edu/">collation.folger.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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