[DCRM-L] Introduction comments

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Possibly because the definition of core-level cataloging is a bibco endeavor, is it not, whereas full-level cataloging did not originate with PCC. Therefore, mention of bibco requirements make sense in the section on, but not necessarily in the section on full. 

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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
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Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library
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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Manon Theroux
Sent: 21 September 2006 15:26
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You're right, Nina, at least for PCC full-level 
records. The BIBCO Manual seems pretty clear 
about it. I'm so glad you spoke up.

So, in the full-level section of the Intro, we need to strike:

"The name headings need not be established using 
authority records, although full authority work 
will generally result in greater consistency of headings and improved access."

And I suggest we include the following somewhere in that paragraph:

"If an institution is a BIBCO participant, 
contributing full-level records as part of the 
Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), all 
headings must be established in the LC/NACO and LC/SACO Authority Files."

to parallel the text in the core-level section.

Now I wonder what led me/us to think the way we 
did. This text has been in the Pre-Cataloging 
Decisions section for a long time!

-Manon



At 02:47 PM 9/21/2006, nschneider at nypl.org wrote:
>In the BIBCO Participants Manual
>(http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/bpm.pdf), take a look at B5.2 (PCC
>Full Standards), and especially paragraph 2.
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>Based on this, I've always assumed that Full-level records require
>authorized headings.
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>       9. On p. 20: Fourth paragraph, beginning, "Although treatment of
>       headings..." Re. Full-level cataloging: "The name headings need not
>       be
>       established using authority records, although full authority work
>       will
>       generally result in greater consistency of headings and improved
>       access."
>       This in contrast to the Core-level which states that headings must be
>       established in the LC/NACO and SACO files.
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>       [DJL]: Sorry Nina, I̢۪m missing your ur point.
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>       [NS]: The point here is that Core-level records and Full-level
>       records require
>       full authority work. The sentence in this fourth paragraph states,
>       "The
>       name headings need not be established using authority records,
>       although
>       full authority work will generally result in greater consistency of
>       headings and improved access." This makes it sound as if any
>       authority work
>       is optional in Full-level records, which is not true. I would suggest
>       either changing this sentence to requre authority work or deleting it
>       altogether.
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>[MT]: Creating authority records for headings in full-level records isn't a
>requirement, as far as I know. If anyone can point to something that says
>otherwise, please do! I think the only time we're *required* to back up
>headings with authority records is in PCC core-level records (and even then
>you can weasel out of creating a series authority record by transcribing
>the series as "untraced" if you want to!).