[DCRM-L] Oops on digraphs

[Deborah J. Leslie]

It doesn't matter only because we've already got DCRM(B) in print. The
deletion of that sentence from the LCRI came just months after our
discussion on "reconsidering digraphs;" I'm just really, really sorry
that it slipped by all of us. 

 

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I suppose it doesn't matter that in this respect, at least (though not
in others), DCRM and LCRI diverge, even though the intent of the DCRM
instructions was to bring them into conformity with LCRI? That was a
concession, after all--and is now an anomalous legacy--since the
divergences from AACR are all otherwise in the direction of more exact
transcription.

Anyway, as I noted previously, the deletion of the sentence in question
was quite recent (CSB 112, summer 2005) and perhaps rather too hard to
spot.

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At 1/9/2008    11:20 AM, Deborah J. Leslie wrote:



For DCRM cataloging, the "simplification" of the LCRI makes no
difference, because explicit instructions are written in the rules.
However, the discussion should be opened again when it's time for
revision. It may be a whole new world out there by then. Speaking of
which, did anybody read Michael Gorman's piece in the Dec 2007 _American
Libraries_ about RDA? I was looking forward to the letters section in
the Jan/Feb 2008 issue, only to be dismayed that the whole space was
taken up with responses ad nauseum to the English only article. 

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Head of Cataloging
Folger Shakespeare Library
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