DCRM(S) Area 3

[Jane Gillis]

To the DCRB Revision List.

For the next week we will be discussing Area 3, Numbering Area.  For those 
of you who catalog only monographs, this is something new.  For those of 
you who catalog serials, the rules vary from AACR2, mainly calling for 
transcription, even though we do call for formatting the 
information.    This has been mentioned as an inconsistency--if on the 
piece is No. 3 Saturday the 18th of June 1776 Volume IV, and we transpose 
this information to Volume IV, no. 3 (Saturday the 18th of June 1776).  We 
do have the option of transcribing exactly what is written, but the rule 
says that the information should be formatted: Numeration (chronological 
information).

What are your thoughts on this?  We would like to follow AACR2 in the 
formatting but not in how the information is stated.


Jane and Juliet

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Juliet McLaren
Project Head, Early Serials
English Short-Title Catalogue
Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research
University of California - Riverside
e-mail: juliet at citrus.ucr.edu FAX: (909) 787-4120 Tel: (909) 787-5841


Jane Gillis | Rare Book Cataloger|  Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University | New Haven CT  06520
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