Topic 4. Transcription (revised options)

[Robert L. Maxwell]

At 03:39 PM 1/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I've merged the old 1 and 2 options since similar. Questions are
surrounded by **. 
>
>
>1. Leave 0H like it is and add a statement to enter a 246 (variant of
title) in the manner in which printed (which is what many libraries do
already) per rule 7C4 Appendix A, rule 7C4-7C5:
>
>	EX. 245 10 Advice from a country judge.
>	      246 3_ Aduice from a country iudge
>
>		[Printed as: ADUICE FROM A COUNTRY 		IUDGE]	
>
>	**Do we need to make a 500 note? -- Title page reads: 	ADUICE FROM A
COUNTRY IUDGE.**

Just change the 246 part to read:

		246 1_ $i Title page reads:$aADUICE FROM A COUNTRY IUDGE

No need for a 500 note.

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>2. Do a vice versa: 245 as printed and 246 as conversion.
>
>	EX. 245 10 Aduice from a country iudge.
>	      246 3_ Advice from a country judge
>
>	**Same Q as in 1 above.**

In this case, I wouldn't think a note would be necessary.

>
>3. Follow LCRI 1.0E (note i/j get the consonant/vowel treatment for
pre-1801 titles).
>
>	EX. 245 10 Advice from a country judge.
>	      246 3_ Aduice from a country iudge	
>
>	**Same Q as in 1 above.**

Use the same version of 246 as case 1.

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>4. Literal transcription of all.
>
>	EX. 245 10 ADUICE FROM A COUNTRY IUDGE.
>	      246 3_ Advice from a country judge
>
>
>From an access point of view, I feel that as long as all possible
variations are addressed in 245 and 246, there's not a problem. From a
transcription point of view, I'm not sure. If you do not do option 4 (and
opt to do upper and lowercase), it seems to me, you are forced to try to
understand the printer's pattern to be true to how s/he printed the title
in the context of the rest of the text. If we don't opt for option 4, I
think we should definitely instruct catalogers to do the note "Title reads
as:" at this point (rule 0H) in the code with reference to 7C4 and appendix
A, 7C4-7C5.
>
>Ultimately the point Patrick raises is the main issue: How close should a
catalog record come to descriptive bibliography?
>
>--Elizabeth A. Robinson
>  Principal Rare Book Cataloger
>  Huntington Library
>  erobinson at huntington.org
>
>
>
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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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