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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s extra-super official now: see below for the Jan. 9 press release from LC and ACRL announcing
<i>Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)</i> – same text available online at
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2014/14-005.html" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2014/14-005.html</a>
</span>(note, however, that although the 60-day waiting period for using new MARC codes has now passed, OCLC Connexion still isn’t accepting 040$e dcrmg as valid. We’ve got a message in to OCLC technical support about it, but no word back yet. <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">New Cataloging Guidelines for Pictures Now Available in Online Publication<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The Library of Congress and the Association of College and Research Libraries have updated the cataloging guidelines for describing pictures, and they are now available in a free,
online book, "Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The guidelines cover still images of all types: photographs, prints, drawings, born-digital pictures, book illustrations, posters, postcards, cartoons, comic strips, advertisements,
portraits, landscape, architectural drawings, bookplates and more. Instructions for capturing core metadata elements—the titles, creators, dates, publishers, and media of pictures—are provided as well as helpful wording for explanatory notes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">"Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)" or DCRM(G) is available online as a free PDF at</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmg" target="_blank"><span style="color:#660099;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
padding:0in">rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmg</span></a>and
as a hypertext document on "Cataloger’s Desktop,"</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="https://desktop.loc.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#660099;
border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">desktop.loc.gov</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">DCRM(G) can be used for graphic materials of any age or type of production, published or unpublished, especially when special treatment is useful because of fragility, rarity and
enduring value or aesthetic, iconographical and documentary interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The book is a direct successor to Elisabeth Betz Parker’s "Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections," published by the Library of Congress
in 1982. Known to many simply as "Betz" or "The Yellow Book," the first "Graphic Materials" became a classic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The new guidelines make records easier for a wide range of users to understand and, for published material, easier for libraries to share. For convenience, advice about cataloging
unpublished groups of materials and collections is now gathered into a single appendix. In recognition of a wide audience wanting access to graphic materials, DCRM(G) also makes increased use of such everyday language as "publisher not identified" instead
of the abbreviation "s.n."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">While DCRM(G) is intended for use in a library context, it can also be a valuable supplement for description in archives, museums, historical societies, corporations and private
collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The guidelines were written by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Policy
and Standards Division of the Library of Congress. They were published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">DCRM(G) is one of a family of manuals providing specialized cataloging rules for various formats of materials typically found in rare book, manuscript and special-collection research
centers. The suite is known as "Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">Instructions on using DCRM(G) will be offered through conference workshops. In addition to many examples in the book itself, a separate document of annotated and MARC-encoded examples
is forthcoming. Questions can also be submitted at any time to DCRM-L, a users group at <a href="http://listserver.lib.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/dcrm-l" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">listserver.lib.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/dcrm-l</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is the higher education association for librarians. Representing more than 11,500 academic and research librarians and interested
individuals, ACRL (a division of the American Library Association) is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to help academic and research librarians learn, innovate and lead within the academic
community. For more information, visit<a href="http://www.acrl.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">www.acrl.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The Library’s Prints and Photographs Division includes more than 15 million photographs, drawings and prints from the 15th century to the present day. International in scope, these
visual collections represent a uniquely rich array of human experience, knowledge, creativity and achievement, touching on almost every realm of endeavor: science, art, invention, government and political struggle, and the recording of history. For more information,
visit <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/"><span style="color:#333333;
text-decoration:none">www.loc.gov/rr/print/</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds more than 155 million items in various languages, disciplines
and formats. The Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its award-winning website at</span><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="color:#333333"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/"><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">www.loc.gov</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">PR 14-005<br>
01/09/14</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
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ISSN 0731-3527<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Erin C. Blake, Ph.D. | Interim Head of Collection Information Services and Cataloging; Curator of Art & Special Collections | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20009 | <a href="mailto:eblake@folger.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">eblake@folger.edu</span></a>
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