DCRM(S) pt. 3

[Patrick Russell]

Hi all:

Again, agree with Bob,

Patrick

At 11:27 AM 1/19/01 -0700, Robert L. Maxwell wrote:
>http://www.library.yale.edu/conser/documents/dcrs.html
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>3A1 3rd sentence. What if there is only one issue? For instance, suppose a 
>serial began, clearly expecting to be a serial, but never published 
>anything beyond the first issue. Would it make sense to add to the sentence 
>beginning "Follow a numeric ..." the phrase "unless there is only one issue"?
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>General note on the hyphen following the date of first issue. There are 
>numerous examples throughout this section that do not have the hyphen. 
>These need to be corrected.
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>3A2. Why is the word "identify" in quotes? They seem to be gratuitous.
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>3A3. I gather the words "in the form in which they appear" includes the 
>concept "do not abbreviate", but in my opinion you should be explicit about 
>this because it differs from AACR2. I suggest you simply add the sentence 
>"Do not abbreviate." after the general sentence.
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>Second paragraph of 3A3, second half of the first sentence ("but the exact 
>transcription ...") should be restated in the imperative, as is the style 
>of the rest of the rules: "Optionally, transcribe the designation exactly." 
>Do you want to require a note if the information is transposed? In the 
>examples below this paragraph, I suggest you use the same serial so that 
>the cataloger can better compare what it would look like with and without 
>conventional punctuation. In fact, it would be useful if all three examples 
>in 3A3 were from the same serial, to contrast the different possible 
>treatments.
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>3B1 & 3C1. I note you do explicitly say not to abbreviate here. This might 
>better be moved to the preliminary rule (see my comment at 3A3). Should the 
>examples have MARC designation (just a reminder--I notice that throughout 
>the rules about half have MARC designation, half don't)
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>3B3. You already gave the bracketing conventions in the preliminary rule,
3A4.
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>3B4. New description is mentioned both in 1B5 and 0C3. See my comments on
1B5.
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>3C1. In choosing the chronological designation the cataloger is told to 
>"consider" the type of date given, but then is instructed to "choose the 
>designation that provides the most complete information." I may be 
>misunderstanding, but I don't see how the type of date has anything to do 
>with the completeness of the information. Why should the cataloger consider 
>the type of date if in the end he/she is going to base the decision on 
>completeness of information? In any case this rule is confusing, at least 
>to this cataloger ...
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>3E1. Should there be a space after the equals sign in the example?
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>3F1. Why is there a period at the end of the second example and not at the 
>end of the first?
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>3G1. Example please!
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