[DCRM-L] Citing the new ESTC

[Johnson, Elizabeth L.]

I would be in favor of the unqualified ESTC.

Elizabeth Johnson

Quoting John Overholt <overholt at fas.harvard.edu>:

> That's how I understood him when he said "Is it worth using anything
> other than unqualified "ESTC", at least for the online resources?"
> I've always thought that the qualifier was a little excessive, and I
> haven't used it in my Hyde records. Plus, I've been pining after the
> 510 browse index Bob has set up for his catalog, and the qualifiers,
> to my way of thinking, split up that file while adding to its
> usefulness marginally, if at all.
> --John
>
> John Overholt
> Hyde Project Cataloger
> Houghton Library
> Harvard University
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hydeblog
>
>
>
> Deborah J. Leslie wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure that Brian *is* recommending that we drop all
>> qualifications. Are you, Brian? I've already written that I don't
>> think a global change in anyone's database from ESTC (RLIN) to ESTC
>> (BL) would be appropriate. My understanding of that qualification in
>> the 510 is that it records where or in which edition the cataloger
>> found the citation, not where or in which edition someone else could
>> find it now.
>>
>>  Of course, we aren't the authors of /Standard Citations/, and
>> Barbara Tillett is tied up with the JSC meetings which began an hour
>> ago at the Library of Congress. It might be nice, although not
>> necessary, for the DCRM user community to come up with a consensus
>> or majority opinion. Even more important would be for us to hash out
>> the issues, so that when Barbara and Elizabeth Robinson and I
>> discuss this, we have a good handle on the various issues and
>> opinions.
>>
>>  I, too, am full of admiration for all the effort that has gone into
>> the final proofreading of DCRM(B). [Append mental picture of me
>> blowing kisses]
>>
>>  Deborah
>>
>>  __________________________________________
>> 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
>>
>> ) | jane.gillis at yale.edu
>>
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