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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​</div>On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Deborah J. Leslie<span> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>></span><span> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1557611100692432921WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(153,51,102)">There is no provision in AACR2, DCRM, or RDA for using 'sic'—a convention used in quoted text—in statements of extent.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(153,51,102)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(95,73,122)">Deborah J. Leslie | Folger Shakespeare Library |<span> </span><a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">djleslie@folger.edu</a><span> </span>|<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">The logic of this is quite clear: the statement must indicate the <i>actual</i> extent according to the rules for the field (whether exact per dcrmb, or recording numbered portions only by less rigorous standards): so corrections are not only OK, they're necessary; merely implying that the source numeration is in some way incorrect is not, even if a note is included in the record. To which dogmatic statement I add "(?)".</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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>
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