[DCRM-L] FW: Anglo-Saxon, French & Scandinavian ligatures

[Laurence S. Creider]

Thank you for sharing this development.  I used to comment to Jean Craig
at Penn back in the early 1980's when LCRI's changed significantly that we
were "cataloging on sand."  Seriously, I would suggest a note to CPSO to
find out what happened and why. Elizabeth Robinson might also have a good
idea of what happened.

Larry

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Laurence S. Creider
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New Mexico State University
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"The past is not what it was"--G K Chesterton

On Thu, December 13, 2007 11:18 am, Robert Maxwell wrote:
> I’ve been having a brief “off-line” conversation with Deborah and she
> suggested DCRM-L might be interested, so here you go. Start at the bottom
> :)
>
> Bob
>
> Robert L. Maxwell
> Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
> Genre/Form Authorities Librarian
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568
> From: Deborah J. Leslie [mailto:DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:44 AM
> To: Robert Maxwell
> Subject: RE: Anglo-Saxon, French & Scandinavian
>
> I can’t believe it! Sigh.
>
> I’ll bet DCRM-L would be interested in this tidbit.
>
>
> __________________________
> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
> Head of Cataloging
> Folger Shakespeare Library
> 201 East Capitol St., S.E.
> Washington, D.C. 20003
> 202.675-0369
> djleslie at folger.edu | http://www.folger.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Maxwell [mailto:robert_maxwell at byu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 December, 2007 17:58
> To: Deborah J. Leslie
> Subject: Anglo-Saxon, French & Scandinavian
>
> Deborah,
>
> Remember our long discussions in the editorial board and elsewhere about
> 0G1.1?
> 0G1.1. Letters and diacritics.    [cid:image001.gif at 01C83D85.E6EEBF10]
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> In general, transcribe letters as they appear. Do not add accents and
> other diacritical marks not present in the source. Convert earlier forms
> of letters and diacritical marks to their modern form (see Appendix G2).
> In most languages, including Latin, transcribe a ligature by giving its
> component letters separately. Do not, however, separate the component
> letters of æ in Anglo-Saxon ; œ in French; or æ and œ in ancient or modern
> Scandinavian languages. If there is any doubt as to the correct conversion
> of letters and diacritical marks to modern form, transcribe them from the
> source as exactly as possible.
>
> I remember the tipping point for why we were giving these three rather
> obscure (in my opinion) exceptions to the principle of transcribing
> component letters of ligatures separately was because the LCRI said to do
> it this way and we had the principle of following AACR2/LCRI unless there
> were rare reasons not to. (I realize there were other arguments, but I
> feel that was the main reason 0G1.1 had the three exceptions.) Well guess
> what. I was looking for the LCRI today in Catalogers’ Desktop and the
> instruction appears to have been removed :(. Of course since it’s an
> electronic document, no way of knowing when it was removed or even any
> clue that it was ever there. I see the page in our paper copy of LCRI was
> replaced in Feb. 2006. Oh well, sic transit gloria mundi, or whatever.
>
> Bob
>
> Robert L. Maxwell
> Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
> Genre/Form Authorities Librarian
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568
>