DCRM(S) pt. 1

Patrick Russell prussell at library.berkeley.edu
Fri Feb 9 13:51:20 MST 2001


Hi all:

Again, agree with Bob's queries.

Patrick

At 10:47 AM 1/19/01 -0700, Robert L. Maxwell wrote:
>http://www.library.yale.edu/conser/documents/dcrs.html
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>1B1 option. Show, as an example, how this would look. I would give as the 
>example the same example as above, Jackson's Oxford  gazette and news so 
>that the cataloger can see how it would look with and without the 
>application of the option:
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>Optionally, include the former title as other title information:
>
>245 10 Jackson's Oxford gazette and news :$bformerly Flynn's Oxford gazette.
>
>1B4. I am confused as to what is going on with the Louisville directory, 
>which appears twice as an example. The first time it makes sense. It 
>doesn't make sense as an example of the date being part of the title proper 
>(which I *would* like to see an example of, since as a monographic 
>cataloger I'm having trouble wrapping my brains around the concept).
>
>1B5. You already said this in 0C3. Do you need to repeat it here? This 
>brings up the question of what constitutes a title change. It needs to be 
>treated somewhere, I think. Do you want to refer people to the new AACR2 
>"major change" appendix? Are there going to be differences between regular 
>and rare serials as to what constitutes a title change? Will rare serials 
>catalogers be more (or less) prone to find a title change (thus triggering 
>a new record) than a regular serials cataloger? Some guidance is needed. 
>Where it belongs in the rules I am not sure. Any ideas?
>
>1D1 refers to 1.1.E, which must be referring to the AACR2 1.1E--should 
>refer to the DCRM rule
>
>1E3 says not to record a statement of responsibility for the editor. What 
>if the person named is the *author* of the serial? I know these are rare, 
>but they do exist.
>
>1E3 option. How does this differ from 1E2? I may be missing something here, 
>but they both seem to be saying about the same thing. Or possibly 1E2 would 
>make more sense if it FOLLOWED 1E3--1E3 says optionally to transcribe S of 
>R if it is integral to other title info; 1E2 says that if S of R has been 
>transcribed as part of OTI (presumably in application of 1E3?) not to give 
>a further S of R.
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