DCRM(S) pt. 5-7

[Robert L. Maxwell]

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5C1. Do you want to note that the AACR2 abbreviations *should* be used in 
this area, since in so many other areas we are NOT abbreviating? E.g., 
facsim., geneal. tables, ports.

5D3. I suggest that rather than give a cutoff date, you speak in terms of 
the materials and process of making the serial. For example, you might word 
the rule to say "For publications issued on laid paper ..."

6. An example would be useful-- "This is a series: ..." "This is not a 
series. Rather, it is other title information: ..."

7A paragraph 4. I suggest "Notes *should* be made ..." rather than "Notes 
*may* be made ..."

7B3. Quotations. "...unless that source is the title page", taken from 
DCRB, might not make as much sense in the context of a serial. Which title 
page? How about " ... unless that source is the chief source" instead?

7C. We are prescribing order of notes here, as DCRB and AACR2 do. I would 
like to be radical here and suggest we scrap this, replacing it with 
something like "Give notes in order of importance according to the 
cataloger's judgment." The rule as written doesn't make much sense in the 
MARC environment because (a) many of the things called "notes" in the rules 
are actually given in MARC in fields other than 5XX; and (b) local system 
display decisions remove much of the control catalogers have over the order 
the notes appear in anyway. Examples of (a): the note prescribed in rule 
7C1, to be the *first* note, is not given in a note field at all, but in 
310/321. 7C4 notes would be given in 246 fields, including the local 
binder's title note (246 with $5). The note in 7C5 might well also be given 
in a 246. 7C8 notes are given in 76X-78X fields. Given all this, I think as 
a practical matter prescriptions in the rules about the order things should 
be in are pretty meaningless.

7C9. The word "title-page" should be abbreviated to "t.p." in the note in 
accordance with standard practice in catalog notes.

7C12. I suggest you give the four required references in their Standard 
Citation forms (with perhaps a footnoted explanation of what the citation 
forms stand for--fuller bibliographical details for each of these would be 
useful, anyway):

Nelson & Seccombe.  Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700
NCBEL
Evans

Hoffmann is not in Standard Citations, so I suggest you declare what the 
"official" form should be here so we are all doing it the same.

7C15. Why not fill out the example?


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Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Cataloger
6430 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 378-5568
robert_maxwell at byu.edu
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