<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sorry - I should have written in the first sentence: “The usage ‘nonce collection’ goes back …”<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 4, 2013, at 10:39 AM, "Noble, Richard" <<a href="mailto:richard_noble@brown.edu">richard_noble@brown.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="georgia, serif">The subject line is a formula for raising biblio-terminological imps. See the forwarded item of correspondence below. - Richard Noble</font></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Noble, Richard</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard_noble@brown.edu">richard_noble@brown.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:32 AM<br>Subject: Re: Terminology<br>To: ...<br><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dear ... ,</span><br><div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif">There really is no single substitute word or phrase for the thing that we Anglo-American bibliographer types call a <i>sammelband </i>(usually treated typographically--lower case, roman--as a loan word). In fact "omnibus volume" is by definition just what a sammelband <i>isn't</i>: per Webster 3, "a book containing reprints of a number of works (as of a single author or on a single subject or related subjects)". Since "reprints" is one of those slippery words that even too many librarians don't correctly understand, I rather like the definition given in</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/omnibus" target="_blank">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/omnibus</a></font></font></div>
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</font></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">"a printed anthology of the works of one author or of writings on related subjects".</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">I suppose the lack of an unambiguous English-language term has to do with the fact that few people confront a sammelband in their daily lives.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">To add to the complexity of all this, it appears (from the same "Free Dictionary") that a <i>Sammelband</i>, to a German, is an omnibus volume: "ein Buch, das Texte eines oder verschiedener Autoren enthält <span><i>Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge verschiedener, sehr namhafter Autoren</i>". Indeed, my Cassell's German to English dictionary <i>defines</i> Sammelband as "an omnibus volume". Moreover, neither Webster nor OED has an entry for "sammelband", the upshot being that the meaning that we have assigned to the word has no lexical authority outside our little circle.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Given that degree of linguistic conflict, and that the object in question is almost always a bound-up collection of pamphlets, and that "pamphlet" clearly denotes a discrete physical object, the better term might be "pamphlet volume". In other contexts one might prefer "bound collection of plays" or "bound volume of separately published poems".</font></div>
<div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif">There's a related phenomenon that wants a designation: separate publications, often of multiple dates but usually with the imprint of the same publisher or printer, reissued as a single volume with a collective title page. I was taught to call this a "nonce collection", perhaps given the now rather archaic use of "for the nonce" to mean "for the purpose", i.e. for the purpose of selling the pieces together. (See also </font></font><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammelband" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammelband</a>).</font></div>
<div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif">We cataloguers have our "with" note, "bound together subsequent to publication", for a ... hmm ... sammelband; it's rather a mouthful. I'm not aware of any such fixed formula to describe a ... uhh ... nonce collection.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">I wish this were an entirely trivial question, but those of us who deal with these objects ought to be able to talk about them coherently. I'm going to forward this to DCRM-L, to see whether any fellow RB cats have come up with an elegant formulation. (Note: "Sammelband" is in the index of RAK, pointing to §107.4, </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">but the available pdf </span></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="ftp://ftp.ddb.de/pub/standardisierung/regelwerke/rak-wb/RAK_WB_ErgLfg4.pdf" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.ddb.de/pub/standardisierung/regelwerke/rak-wb/RAK_WB_ErgLfg4.pdf</a></font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">omits everything before §117.3)</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Does this help??</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Best wishes,</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Richard</font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br clear="all">
</font></font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY<br>PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : <a href="tel:401-863-1187" value="+14018631187" target="_blank">401-863-1187</a>/FAX 863-3384 : <a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" target="_blank">RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU</a> </font></div>
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