FWD: Area 7 comparisons - for BSC at ALA

[Jain Fletcher]

Hello, everyone,
   I sent this message to DCRB-L last week and learned only 2 days ago 
that it hadn't gone through.  You see, because this is such an intimate 
gathering of colleagues, I had simply forgotten that it was a listserv 
and as such, doesn't like attachments.  
   As you will see from my original explanatory note below that there 
was a reason why I wanted to preserve my text as much as possible (the 
font variations), so it was not an option simply to copy it and put it 
into the plain text of our e-mail system.  So I've worked very closely 
with Bob Maxwell on this, who generously agreed to mount it on his 
Website so everyone could access it and be able to print it (if 
desired) with the fonts intact.  The Web migration did make some 
differences (the font sizes aren't exact matches, of course; some of 
the indentation was lost; and somehow it still has come out longer [my 
print preview indicates 32 p.]), but I think it is still much better 
than a plain text version would have been.  So here is the link to the 
text:

	http://www.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/bsc/dcrb/area7comp.htm

When you read the explanation below, substitute the concept of 
"attachment" for the Web version.  
   I might add that, in a way, some of my comments touch on the format 
points that Jane mentioned in her message of Jan. 4, so I am 
interested, too, in anyone's insights into why it was done that way in 
DCRB.				--Jain

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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:16:22 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
From: Jain Fletcher <jfletchr at library.ucla.edu>
Subject: Area 7 comparisons - for BSC at ALA
To: DCRBlist <dcrb-l at lib.byu.edu>

Hello, everyone,
Attached you should find my long (25 p.) comparison of Area 7s.  It is 
long because I have put quite a bit of text into it.  I have included 
both Chapters 1 and 2 of AACR2, along with relevant LCRIs for either of 
those (with the exception of one particularly long one, which I've 
noted), as well as DCRB.  And then, following these rules are my 
comments. So, considering how much text there was, I realized I could 
not present it in a tabular way, as others have done.  Therefore, I 
decided to present the texts in a specific order, per rule.  Although 
the sections are all carefully labeled, I thought it would be a good 
idea to distinguish between these texts by graphic means. So I chose to 
do this with a few variations in font.  Here is the order I chose, 
along with font information: 

		AACR2, Ch. 1 - 12 pt.
		LCRI, Ch. 1 - 12 pt., italic
		AACR2, Ch. 2 - 10 pt.
		LCRI, Ch. 2 - 10 pt., italic
		DCRB - 10 pt., bold
		Comments - 12 pt., bold, italic

As far as my commentary goes, I have divided it into 3 potential 
sections: Notes, Suggestions and Missing notes/examples.  The "Notes" 
are mostly about the similarities/differences between rules.  Some of 
these are somewhat obvious with a little perusal, but I am trying to 
help people avoid having to scan the text too deeply.  The 
"Suggestions" contain some of my ideas about directions we may wish to 
take, but should be considered (as I did when making them) fodder for 
discussion, rather than strong beliefs on my part about any direction 
we should take.  (I must mention that my conviction that DCRB is 
already a very fine rulebook was only strengthened through this 
exercise.)  

The last section ("Missing ...") is something extra that I have 
included for our consideration.  I had actually noticed this issue to 
some extent while I was going through DCRB for the DCRB Core project.  
At that point, when trying to decide which of the notes that DCRB 
considered extremely important and therefore potentially not 
"omittable" in a core record, I noticed many allusions to notes in the 
rules which did not seem to be borne out in any way in Area 7.  So, I 
decided to comb through each of the rules again for allusions to notes, 
then check to see if they were mentioned again in Area 7, or at least 
had examples within the rule or in Area 7. The end result from that 
process for the purposes of this section is a list of rule numbers 
wherein notes had been suggested in the rules, but where there were no 
examples at all, either in the rule or in Area 7. 

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Jain Fletcher 
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