Topic 4. Transcription (revised options)

[Robert L. Maxwell]

At 04:30 PM 1/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Bob et al.
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>Yes, 246 |i or 500. Some of us have local systems that display the |i kind
of goofy.
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>--ear

I know, I know--our recently demised and greatly lamented NOTIS system was
one of these. Possibly we could include a note talking about the goofy
systems and possible ways to get around them? I think in the document
itself we should if possible stick to the prescribed MARC method, which is
no longer to use a 5XX note for this sort of thing, isn't it?

bob

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>From: 	Robert L. Maxwell[SMTP:robert_maxwell at byu.edu]
>Sent: 	Thursday, January 21, 1999 4:17 PM
>To: 	dcrb-l at lib.byu.edu
>Subject: 	Re: Topic 4. Transcription (revised options)
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>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 **. 
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>>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:
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>>	EX. 245 10 Advice from a country judge.
>>	      246 3_ Aduice from a country iudge
>>
>>		[Printed as: ADUICE FROM A COUNTRY 		IUDGE]	
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>>	**Do we need to make a 500 note? -- Title page reads: 	ADUICE FROM A
>COUNTRY IUDGE.**
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>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.**
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>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.**
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>Use the same version of 246 as case 1.
>
>>
>>4. Literal transcription of all.
>>
>>	EX. 245 10 ADUICE FROM A COUNTRY IUDGE.
>>	      246 3_ Advice from a country judge
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>>
>>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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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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