<div dir="ltr">Hi Allison, The descriptive conventions source
code (040 $e) was requested from the MARC Standards Office just after
the BSC vote to approve DCRM(MSS) at ALA Annual in Orlando, about two months ago. <br><br>We requested "dcrmmss" but the Standards Office has not yet approved the request, and it's possible they may choose a code different from what we requested. When approved, the new code will be announced in a MARC <a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcginf.html#naa">technical notice</a> and added to the MARC <a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/descriptive-conventions.html" target="_blank">list of descriptive convention source codes.</a><br><br>I do expect that the approved code will not contain parentheses, as in your example. Codes are
composed of lowercase alphabetic characters, numeric characters 0 through 9, and the
hyphen (-), up to a maximum of 12 characters. <br><div><br></div><div><div></div><div>Once MARC announces a new code in a technical notice, they request a 60-day waiting period on implementation in
exchange records, so that the code can be added to validation tables. The MARC source code site says "Implementers may use newly assigned codes in their
internal systems immediately as long as records
containing new codes are not distributed until after
the waiting period."<br><br>As for OCLC, I think we may have to wait until the next OCLC-MARC technical bulletin that we will see the code validate in OCLC, and those appear to come out annually.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'll send an update to DCRM-L list as soon as I hear more.<br><br></div><div>Matt<br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Allison Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allison_rich@brown.edu" target="_blank">allison_rich@brown.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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<div>Hi Nina and all:<br>
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Question here!!<br>
I have just encoded the "$e dcrm(mss)" in the 040 in a new MARC
record in OCLC today.<br>
The code is unrecognized in OCLC and, thus, the record will not
verify.<br>
<br>
Can anyone advise on this from OCLC?<br>
Thank you for your help,<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Allison<br>
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<pre><div><div class="h5">Dear Colleagues:
The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (RBMS/ACRL) is pleased to announce the publication of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts). DCRM(MSS) covers individual manuscripts on paper, on microfilm, or in the form of digital surrogates. It does not cover manuscript music, manuscript maps, or graphics, all of which are covered by other DCRM manuals currently in development or already published. This manual is the result of the hard work of the DCRM(MSS) editorial team: Alison E. Bridger, Diane Ducharme (SAA Description Section liaison), Kate Moriarty, Jennifer K. Nelson, Margaret Nichols (chair), Elizabeth O'Keefe, and Heather Wolfe.
The PDFs of the text and the cover are DCRM(MSS) is available here: <a href="http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmmss/" target="_blank">http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmmss/</a><wbr>. They are also available through the list of published manuals on the DCRM page <a href="http://rbms.info/dcrm/" target="_blank">http://rbms.info/dcrm/</a>.
Enjoy!
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Nina M. Schneider
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Rare Books Librarian
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA 90018
<a href="tel:%28323%29%20731-8529" value="+13237318529" target="_blank">(323) 731-8529</a>
<a href="mailto:nschneider@humnet.ucla.edu" target="_blank">nschneider@humnet.ucla.edu</a>
<a href="http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/" target="_blank">http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/<wbr>humnet/clarklib/</a></div></div>
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"Outside of a dog,
a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx"
Allison Rich
Rare Materials Cataloguer
ESTC and NACO Coordinator
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
<a href="mailto:Allison_Rich@brown.edu" target="_blank">Allison_Rich@brown.edu</a>
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