[DCRM-L] FW: Greek signatures

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Bob,
 
This exact question came up here at the Folger. The correct way to
render the statement, following the example under Hebrew, is: 
 

a-g[superscript 8] (in Greek characters), A-2H[superscript 8]

 

And yes, we considered every possible permutation of how to represent
non-roman characters to death. What we came up with is the only one that
didn't carry within itself fatal contradictions.

 

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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. 
Head of Cataloging 
Folger Shakespeare Library 
djleslie at folger.edu 
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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert Maxwell
Sent: Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 17:33
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: [DCRM-L] FW: Greek signatures



For some reason this message didn't make it through to the list ...

 

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: 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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