[DCRM-L] Single-Sheet Publications

[Todd Fell]

With apologies for sending this on a Friday afternoon (you may choose 
not to read it until Monday morning [or later] if you so wish).

There has been some confusion here on the Rare Book Team at Yale in 
applying the rules concerning single-sheet publications in DCRM(B). I 
would like to hear some feedback as to whether others have faced the 
same confusion, or, if not, exactly how one would apply these rules.

The specific rules are: 5B14.2, 5D4.1, and 5D4.2.

My first question: what would be a good example of a single-sheet 
issued in folded form, but designed to be used unfolded, with an 
extent of pagination of [1] p., as given in the corresponding example 
for 5D4.1?

         1 sheet ([1] p.); 48 x 30 cm, folded to 24 x 15 cm

Further questions: is the term "panels" used in rule 5B14.2 
applicable only to sheets which are folded vertically (what I believe 
was called a "folder" in DCRB)? Or can one apply to term to a sheet 
which is folded horizontally as well as vertically? Does the layout 
of the text on such a sheet affect whether or not one uses the term 
"panel" (and, as it seems the rule implies, the term "1 folded sheet" 
as opposed to "1 sheet")? Or is it strictly how the sheet is folded?

Finally, in rule 5D4.2, it states, when describing "other folded 
sheets" ("other" in relation to the example given in 5D4.1) to give 
the height of the sheet when folded.

         1 folded sheet ([8] panels) ; 18 cm

It would appear to me that a sheet which folds both horizontally and 
vertically is a "folded sheet" as well, and the full dimensions of 
the sheet both folded and unfolded ought to be given. Thus, it seems 
to me rules 5D4.1 and 5D4.2 can be blended together with the 
following examples:

         Folded sheet (however it is folded and/or paginated):

         1 folded sheet ([8] panels) ; 48 x 30 cm, folded to 24 x 15 cm

         Broadside:

         1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 48 x 30 cm.

This simplifies one's decision when giving the dimensions: you always 
give the folded and unfolded dimensions if issued folded; and the 
height and width when not issued folded. One should never use the 
height alone. One always has the option, as outlined in 5B14.2, to 
give a note providing further details of the sheet, if need be.

Please let me know if others have faced such confusion when 
cataloging single-sheet publications. If not, please enlighten me as 
to how these rules are to be applied, with clear examples of each 
type of single-sheet publication.

Thank you.

Todd Fell
Catalog Librarian
Rare Book Team
Yale University 
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