<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Treating it as a collection will obviate the situation in which you claim to have a copy of a book when you actually have only a fragment of it. Without access to your local record, one might have every reason to believe that your copy is complete.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">If you add an access point for the expression manifested by the book, then it's possible to find your fragment in a unique record that describes it and the other materials in the collection accurately, without adding mere grit to the granularity of the larger database.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: 401-863-1187</font></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace" target="_blank">Richard_Noble@Br</a><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">></span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Stephen A Skuce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skuce@mit.edu" target="_blank">skuce@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Echoing Margaret’s consideration of the 16 printed pages, and whether they’re consecutive: either way, I think a good case could be made for cataloging the volume as a collection according to DCRM(B), Appendix
B: collection-level records, though the case for that treatment is a bit stronger if the printed pages are non-consecutive.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">What you’re describing is essentially a (very) small collection, 20% manuscript, that came to your library previously assembled and, it seems, well organized. Collection-level records do not have to be minimal,
and employing copious notes and access points can result in a strong, researcher-friendly description of your volume, and provide very good intellectual access. And to echo another of Margaret’s points – whether you’re working in an environment that’s largely
book-centered – such records integrate very nicely with records in a typical ILS. You can encode the record as type p, mixed materials.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">One final word: appendix B is very easy to follow.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Stephen<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Stephen Skuce<u></u><u></u></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""> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Margaret F. Nichols<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Rare book question<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">This is a rather ambiguous case, Avrom, but I’ll venture in with my two cents and then we can see what others suggest. Since the work consists mainly of printed material from a book, I’d suggest cataloging it
as a book with manuscript material in it, with code “a” in the “Type” element. You can describe the manuscript material and the binding in copy-specific notes.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I’m assuming that the printed pages are consecutive. If they’re not, and instead there’s a page here and a page there from the prayer book, that (to my mind) makes the item something closer to a scrapbook, and
a little bit more of a candidate to be cataloged as an archival collection (in the sense of a unique collection consisting of mixed material) that’s bound together in a volume. But if you’re working mainly in the context of a library (i.e. book collection)
and the manuscripts in the book aren’t of exceptional importance, you could still make a case for cataloging the volume as a book, since it’s mainly print material.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Good luck,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Margaret Nichols<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Margaret F. Nichols<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Cataloging & Metadata Services in RMC<u></u><u></u></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"">
<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Avrom E Shuchatowitz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Rare book question<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I work at the library of Yeshiva University in New York. I am cataloging a rare item which is a compilation of Jewish prayers in memory of the deceased.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am not sure whether to call this a manuscript or a regular book. It is privately compiled and bound. The first page is a Ladino prayer handwritten in blue ink on lined note paper. The next sixteen pages are printed Hebrew pages of
prayers, extracted from an unidentified published prayer book. The last three pages are again handwritten on lined note paper. It is a list of names and death dates in Hebrew. All this is bound together in a piece of leather with a title mounted on a strip
of tape on the front of it. This was probably compiled in New York in the 1950’s. No name is given of a compiler or organization. My question , therefore, is what to consider this item as. In the fixed field, what code do I give it in the “Type” element?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please advise. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Avrom Shuchatowitz <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yeshiva University Library<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New York, NY<u></u><u></u></p>
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