[DCRB-L] DCRM working group descriptions and participants

[Deborah J. Leslie]

1.	Working Group 1: General principles

This group's work will provide explicit justification for the need of separate rules for rare materials by articulating the general principles that underlie their different treatment. Joe Springer, veteran of the last revision, is writing a draft which will form the basis for this discussion, and since it will provide the basic reference for the other revision working groups, we hope that the basic principles will be largely agreed upon before the conference. Conference time will be devoted to refining the document and adapting it as the introduction to DCRM. It will cover general principles for all rare materials (DCRM) as well as the specific basic principles for rare books (DCRM(B)).

Drafter: Joe Springer
Moderator: Jackie Dooley

Attig
Creider
Dooley
Fletcher
Johnson
McLaren
Smith
Springer 
Stalker
Taraba


2.	Working Group 2: Transcription of pre-modern letter forms

This group will concern itself primarily with the I/J U/V problem, and in the process it will provide general principles for treating pre-modern letter forms.

Drafter: Benjamin Griffin
Moderator: Brian Hillyard

Griffin
Hillyard
Jones
Larrabee
Leslie
Maxwell
Pass
Tabb

 
3.	Machine-press books

This group will tackle the issues of cataloging machine-press books under DCRB and propose specific rules and amendments to existing rules to cover them. Manon Théroux, who presented a Bibliographic Standards Committee preconference workshop on this issue, will write the advance paper. 

Drafter: Manon Théroux
Moderator: Beth Russell

Fisher
Copeland
Gillis
Robinson
Roper
Russell
Skuce	
Théroux


4.	Collection-level cataloging

Interest in the use of collection-level cataloging in backlog reduction is on the rise. Using a draft by Jain Fletcher, this group will write rules, guidelines, and recommendations for DCRM(B) collection-level cataloging. 

Drafter: Jain Fletcher
Moderator: Barbara Jones

Dooley
Fisher
Fletcher
Gillis
Jones
Russell
Smith
Tabb
Taraba


5.	Specific problems and lacunae

This group will offer solutions to identified problems, rough spots, and lacunae in DCRB by proposing new rules and amendments to existing rules. Some examples: silent normalization of roman dates in imprints, collation of books consisting entirely of plates, dedications and privilege statements on title pages, and guidance for producing signature statements of Greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic alphabets.

Drafter: Deborah J. Leslie
Moderator: Laurence Creider

Creider
Hillyard
Larrabee
Leslie 
Robinson
Roper
Skuce
Springer


6.	Editions, issues, and states, or, When to create a new record

Many conditions influence this decision, both at the local and the utility level, which make it particularly thorny. This group will explore the feasibility of writing an equivalent to LCRI 1.0. In doing so, it will consider traditional bibliographical conditions of early printed books  in context of the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, in particular, in the definitions of work, expression, manifestation, and item. In addition, it may craft guidelines and considerations for individual agencies on choosing what level of cataloging is appropriate for different kinds of materials.

Drafters: John Attig and Ann W. Copeland
Moderator: Robert Maxwell

Attig
Copeland
Johnson
Maxwell
McLaren
Pass
Stalker
Théroux



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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. 
Head of Cataloging
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol St., S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
202.675-0369 (p)
202.675-0328 (f)
djleslie at folger.edu
www.folger.edu