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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D">It is a complete mystery to me why RDA decided to depart so radically from standard editorial conventions. The argument that "users don't understand …" has no legs
when the use of square brackets, [sic], i.e., e.g., and ellipses are standard editorial conventions in wide and constant use. Open just about any recent style manual to confirm.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D">Examples of quoted text in the Washington Post of the last few days (exact copy-and-paste)—no comments, please, on the incendiary nature of some of the quotes:
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Somehow, I read and misconstrued both the Rockefeller and Rothchild [sic] theories,”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Rothschilds contro[l] the climate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“[I]t isn’t clear the Trump administration<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">disproportionate number of red states (e.g., Montana, North Dakota, Indiana)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and the searing lesson … of the Iraq War<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#5F497A">Deborah J. Leslie | Folger Shakespeare Library | djleslie@folger.edu |<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 [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathie Coblentz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 03 April, 2018 12:48<br>
<b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] RBMS PS review Q4: Extent of text<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I completely agree with Bob Maxwell on "i.e.," and I have no problems using "that is" instead. (It never ceases to surprise me how many educated people use "i.e." when they mean "e.g.," and vice versa. Or "the other way around," I suppose
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, "sic" is awfully hard to replace with an English word or concise phrase. Of course RDA gospel calls for omitting it altogether in transcribing "an element as it appears on the source," and I can go along with that, as long as there
is a note (and/or other title entry) "correcting the inaccuracy," though in the case of rare materials, I would not limit that to "if considered important for identification or access." <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This doesn't really apply to the discussion of Extent of text, since I can't imagine using "sic" there for any reason, but it might be worth reflecting on for the rest of the catalog record.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Oh, and for what it's worth: for rare materials, I'm completely on board with using the square brackets convention instead of "unnumbered," for the sake of everyone's sanity. I wish RDA would drop "unnumbered" altogether. Anyone who cares
about the distinction between pages with page numbers on them and pages with no page numbers on them, understands the bracketing convention. As for the rest, how many noncatalogers even know what "unnumbered pages" means?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Kathie Coblentz |
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From: Robert Maxwell <<a href="mailto:robert_maxwell@byu.edu">robert_maxwell@byu.edu</a>><br>
To: "DCRM Users' Group" <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
Cc: <br>
Bcc: <br>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:05:50 +0000<br>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] RBMS PS review Q4: Extent of text<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I can just about accept the argument that there is a rare reason for departing from RDA extent instructions
in the matter of bracketing vs. “unnumbered”—rare book extent statements are much more likely than other types of extent statements to need to record unnumbered sequences.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">However, I do not accept the argument that rare extent statements should continue to use “i.e.” and
“sic” when the rest of RDA practice does not. In the first place, if 0.4.3.7 justified this it would have justified it for RDA as a whole—the rare materials community is not the only one that “commonly used” these forms,
<i>all</i> communities commonly used these forms before RDA came along and this was not thought to be a good reason to refuse to go along with the new instruction. So that argument simply won’t wash, for me at least. There is no compelling rare materials reason
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Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
<a href="tel:(801)%20422-5568" target="_blank">(801)422-5568</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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