[DCRM-L] DCRM(B) final close reading

[Will Evans]

Hi Deborah,
 
If help is still needed, I'll take a section or two. 
 
Best,
 
Will. 

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Will Evans
Rare Materials Catalog Librarian
Biography & History Bibliographer
Boston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108

Telephone: (617) 227-0270, ext. 243
Fax: (617) 227-5266
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/

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-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:10 PM
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: [DCRM-L] DCRM(B) final close reading



Dear friends of DCRM,

As we head into the final days of DCRM(B) preparation, I want to issue a
call for volunteer proofreaders. The text is due to the indexer on Tuesday
September 5. We wish to subject DCRM(B) to another round of close reading
between September 5 and October 1, when the text is due to the GPO for
printing. (November 1 is the date it's expected to hit the streets). 

Bibliographic Standards members and volunteers from the community did a
close reading of the delta version of DCRM(B) in preparation for our public
hearing in June 2005. That was a productive and beneficial exercise. For
this, the eta version, the main purpose will be to proofread for typos,
missing words, inconsistency of punctuation or indentation, and the like.
(For example, I just noticed that we sometimes use a colon after "but" and
sometimes not when introducing counter-examples). We are not expecting
content-related problems (fingers crossed), with the possible exception of
rule references--we've been breaking up longer rules with added
sub-numbering, and references to them will need to be double- and
triple-checked. 

Speaking of double and triple-checking, I hope to have enough volunteers in
addition to Bib Standards committee members to assign two or three people to
each section.  Please let me know if you would like to contribute to DCRM(B)
in this final important task and thereby win our sincere gratitude, and if
so, how many sections you'd be willing to take, and whether you have any
preferences. We also need at least a couple of people willing to proofread
the entire text, preface to glossary. 

Preface 

Introduction (including Objectives & Principles and Pre-Cataloging
Decisions) 

Area 0 General rules 

Area 1 Title and statement of responsibility

Areas 2 & 8  Edition and standard numbers

Area 4 Publication, distribution, etc. 

Area 5  Physical description

Area 6 Series

Area 7 Notes

Appendix A: Marc 21 Descriptive Conventions Code        

Appendix B: Collection-Level Records    

Appendix C: Core-Level Records  

Appendix D: Minimal-Level Records       

Appendix E: Variations Requiring A New Description      

Appendix F: Title Access Points 

Appendix G: Early Letter Forms And Symbols      

Appendix H: Individual Issues Of Serials  

Glossary

Thanks for considering it. --DJL

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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
http://www.folger.edu/bsc/index.html
Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol St., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003

djleslie at folger.edu || 202.675-0369 || http://www.folger.edu 



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