[DCRM-L] Collated & Perfect

[Rettberg, Dan]

At Hebrew Union College, where we have three separate campus libraries (Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and New York) contributing to a single database, we already do that, preceding all local notes with (CIN) for the Cincinnati campus, for example.
 
Dan Rettberg
Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer
Klau Library
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Cincinnati, Ohio
 
drettberg at huc.edu

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu]On Behalf Of Margaret Nichols
Sent: Mon, July 16, 2007 9:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Collated & Perfect


One thought that occurs to me is that since people don't always remove the previous institution's notes from the record when they copy it for their own institution, the "collated & perfect" note might end up being misleading in those cases. On the other hand, if the note begins with "Folger copy" or the like, I suppose that removes that danger (except for the occasional extremely unobservant patron).

Hope this doesn't sound too muddled--it's Monday ...

Cheers,

Margaret Nichols

At 05:02 PM 7/14/2007, you wrote:



At ALA annual this year, RBMS  co-sponsored a program with MAGERT on library map security. One of the speakers was Smiley's prosecuting attorney, who stated that a catalog record that didn't mention imperfections wouldn't stand up in court as evidence that it had no imperfections at the time it was cataloged; a defense attorney would merely need to find a few examples of cataloging that failed to mention existing imperfections at the time of cataloging. 

It occurred to me that for cataloging rare materials, it might be worth considering incorporating the old "collated & perfect" (sometimes abbreviated "c.&p.") note that booksellers and collectors used to pencil into books or include in descriptions. I'm imagining something like this, where a note on the state of the volume's completeness would come at the front of all copy-specific notes:

590 Folger copy: C.&p. DJL 20070714. Bound in <...> 

Thoughts? 

_____________________________ 
Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. 
Head of Cataloging 
Folger Shakespeare Library 
djleslie at folger.edu 
http://www.folger.edu 

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Head, Special Collections Materials Unit
Library Technical Services
110 Olin Library
Cornell University
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