[DCRM-L] DCRB Core

[Windy Lundy]

Deborah,
 
Thank you for noting and recommending my article.
 
For the past few days, I've been thinking about your question concerning
promotion of the DCRB Core standard.  I'm not sure how more can be done than
has already been done with the work of the Task Force that wrote the
standard, approval by the PCC, and the inclusion of the standard in the
appendix in DCRM(B).  The appendices of DCRM(B) are important and including
the core-level definition in Appendix C will give it additional prominence
and perhaps greater visibility to rare book catalogers than the PCC website.
The Books Core standard has had much acceptance, but in at least some cases
the decision to apply the Books Core as the default standard is an
administrative one.  I think application of the DCRB Core standard really is
a matter of cataloger's judgment.  If an administrative decision were made
to use a less-than-full-level standard for cataloging rare books, minimal
level is no longer the only option.  Even though I did not expect that a
huge number of DCRB Core records would be identified in the utilities, I had
hoped, for the sake of the analysis, that there would be more records than
there were.  Mostly, as I indicated, reasons for catalogers' use of the
standard were not clear to me.
 
I'm still thinking on your query about the 502 and 505.  Perhaps others have
comments about them.
 
Windy
 
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M. Winslow Lundy
Assistant Professor
Catalog Librarian
University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries
184 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
phone: 303-492-3918
fax: 303-492-0494
email: windy.lundy at colorado.edu



   
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:29 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] DCRB Core


I have just finished reading Windy Lundy's excellent, thorough analysis of
the use of DCRB Core in the bibliographic utilities. I highly recommend it:
Library Resources & Technical Services, v.50:1 (2006:Jan ), p. 42-57
 
DCRM(B) has taken over Appendix C on core records from DCRB; I don't think
it's been changed very much. Windy's article got me thinking about a couple
of things.
 
I wonder if the 502 dissertation note and the 505 formatted contents should
be "Mandatory if applicable"?  They are right now, but their relative
importance eludes me.
 
It sounded like many of the bibliographic records in Windy's study coded
"core" actually met standards for full level. Perhaps Windy or those who use
DCRB core can comment on this. Is there something DCRM(B) can or should do,
or the Bib Standards Committee can or should do, to promote use of the core
standard and/or make it more viable? Or have we fulfilled our duty by making
it available for those few institutions who want to use it?
 
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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
Head of Cataloging
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol St., SE
Washington, DC 20003
202.675-0369
djleslie at folger.edu
 
 
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