[DCRM-L] FW: Greek signatures

[Robert Maxwell]

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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
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From: Will Evans [mailto:evans at bostonathenaeum.org]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:15 AM
To: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu
Subject: Greek signatures


At the risk of sounding like a Monday morning quarterback, I'm a little puzzled by rule 7B9.9. The item I have in hand has the preliminaries signed in Greek characters and the bulk of the text signed in Roman characters. As we all are now at the mercy of OCLC, which does not include Greek characters in its ALA set of diacritics and special characters, I'll end up with the following signature statement:

a-g[superscript 8] A-2H[superscript 8]


I find this is confusing. I guess I can add a note indicating which characters are in Greek, but this requires extra work.

Out of curiosity was a scheme of [alpha], [beta], [gamma], etc. ever considered?

Best,

Will


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