<div dir="ltr">I wasn't an original DCRMR editor, so I can't speak to why the rule exists, but I'm guessing that "entirely non-textual" is meant to be taken extremely literally. <div><br></div><div>If there's a title page (engraved or letterpress), a printed cover containing text, or any other speck of transcribable printed content in the resource, you could use DCRMR if you wanted to.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_2004328139065498707_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">______________________<br></span></a><a name="m_2004328139065498707_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Erin Blake, Ph.D. | Senior Cataloger | Folger
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 12:04 PM Lapka, Francis <<a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu" target="_blank">francis.lapka@yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">A question for DCRMR editors:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">DCRMR 6.22.37.1 says:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">If a resource consists entirely of non-textual material (e.g., photographs, portraits, maps), do not record the presence of illustrations. Instead, describe the resource
using the instructions for the appropriate content type (e.g., still image, cartographic image, etc.)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bsc.rbms.info/DCRMR/phys-desc/Illustrative-content/#62237-resources-consisting-entirely-or-chiefly-of-illustrations" target="_blank">https://bsc.rbms.info/DCRMR/phys-desc/Illustrative-content/#62237-resources-consisting-entirely-or-chiefly-of-illustrations</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">If I’ve understood this correctly, DCRMR tells us that a work composed entirely of engraved images should be cataloged as a graphic resource. Is that correct? Does it matter whether the resource has a letterpress
title page or cover title (for example: <a href="https://worldcat.org/title/1290320394" target="_blank">
https://worldcat.org/title/1290320394</a>)?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">For comparison, DCRM(G)’s Appendix H has these introductory remarks:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">This appendix provides guidance for cataloging formally published portfolios, books of plates, etc. bearing formal title pages when graphic material characteristics are
the primary focus of the description. The primary differences from book cataloging are the presence of the general material designation “graphic,” and a statement of extent counts and describes images instead of focusing on pagination. An institution might,
for example, decide to catalog volumes that consist chiefly or entirely illustrations as books when the images are reproductive prints, and as graphic material when the images themselves are works of art (see introductory section X on precataloging decisions).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">To date, my repository has largely followed the distinction described in that final sentence. For records I see in OCLC as well, volumes of reproductive prints are much more frequently described as books (with
DCRMB) than as graphics. In DCRMR, they’d all be graphics? I’d be okay with such a change, though it is significant.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Francis<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Francis Lapka</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Senior Catalog Librarian</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Yale Center for British Art</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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