Topic 7: Principles (repost)

[Robert Maxwell]

>Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:35:49 -0400 (EDT)
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>Subject: Re: Topic 7: Principles
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>Oh boy, sorry I asked!
>
>Well, AACR2 describes an item in general--the universal, ideal copy,
perfectly
>pristine and always available. Sometimes the real book, map, score almost
>corresponds to the AACR2 description.  But sometimes they do not.  Uh-oh, and
>sometimes they ADD STUFF.  Then we need DCRB, or whatever future handbook we
>create.
>
>I have been talking with cartography cataloguers (per my promise in
>Washington), who seem desperate for their own DCRB, perhaps a DCRCM? (They
>have reminded me that maps are only part of the challenge--there are also
>globes, gores, movable lunar tables, and such.) 
>
>Sandra
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Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Cataloger
6428 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 378-5568
robert_maxwell at byu.edu
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