FW: Series in DCRB

[Elizabeth Robinson]

Per Bob's request. For those of you who have not seen this before, read from the bottom up. --ear

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From: 	Robert Maxwell[SMTP:robert_maxwell at byu.edu]
Sent: 	Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:23 PM
To: 	Elizabeth Robinson; Patrick Russell; Robert Maxwell; Laurence S. Creider; Jain Fletcher; Jane Gillis; Melinda Hayes
Subject: 	RE: Series in DCRB

Could those of you who have begun to discuss this question (so far Richard
and Elizabeth, I belive) please forward your messages to dcrb-l, and then
continue the discussion there, since that is a larger group than the BSC
itself?

Thanks,
Bob

At 04:12 PM 10/7/99 -0700, Elizabeth Robinson wrote:
>Richard et al.
>
>The first thing that comes to mind is the problematic "non-series". E.g.
cooked-up guys like "Bell's theatre" and also titles that may sound
series-like but may not really be a series (formally) in the sense that we
think of it in cataloging:
>
>	245 10 Handbook of perspective drawing. :|bKrusi's drawing 
>	series--.|ppart III. /|cby Herman Krusi, .
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>For early and earlier books, it's difficult to know sometimes if the
information should go into a 4xx or stay in the 245 (or a 500, etc.). And
if you do the latter, should you still set it up as a series and do an 830
too.
>
>--Eliz. R.
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>From: 	Richard Noble[SMTP:Richard_Noble at brown.edu]
>Sent: 	Thursday, October 07, 1999 12:09 PM
>To: 	Patrick Russell; Robert Maxwell; Laurence S. Creider; Jain Fletcher;
Jane Gillis; Melinda Hayes; Robert L. Maxwell; Juliet McLaren; Richard
Noble; Elizabeth Robinson; E. C. Schroeder; Sandra Sider; Bruce Tabb;
Gerald R. Wager
>Subject: 	Series in DCRB
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>People have been quite kind about this suggestion of mine. It's only fair
>that it should be up to me to take it beyond a casual hint and actually
>draft something, if the Committee approves. Any particularly juicy examples
>from your own cataloguing (sp?) experience will be welcome--no restriction
>on dates, but c17-c18 examples might be very persuasive. I may have a few
>really good late c19 examples to play with, thanks to a local collection.
>
>This despite the fact that, like any rare book NACO cataloguer, I hate
series.
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>Richard
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>At 10/7/99 10:57 AM -0700, Patrick Russell wrote:
>>Hi all:
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>>I agree completely with Bob's summary.  Let's send it on.
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>>Also, Richard has a good point about need to explicate this in a revised
DCRB
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>>Patrick
>>
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>
>RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY
>PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-2093 : RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU
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