[DCRM-L] Academic disputations

[Laurence Creider]

When AACR2 does discuss these items, it is in chapter 21, rule 21.27A 
under the title Academic disputations, and the terms in the footnotes 
to that rule mostly use the terms Disputatio.
There is a very nice subject authority record for Academic Disputations 
contributed by Brigham Young in 2005 (was that you Bob?).  You could use 
that as a 655 with a second indicator of 7 and a subfield 2 lcsh.

Larry Creider

Laurence S. Creider
Head, General Cataloging Unit &
Special Collections Librarian
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM  88003
Work: 505-646-4707, 505-646-7227
Fax: 505-646-7477
lcreider at lib.nmsu.edu

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Rettberg, Dan wrote:

>
>
> A decade ago when I was employed at another institution I had the 
> privilege of cataloging a large number (hundreds) of academic 
> disputations from the 16th-18th centuries. At that time I added what 
> seemed to be the standardly used fields of 502 and 655 (Academic 
> dissertation) to the records. Recently, here at HUC, I did another stack 
> of same. AACR2 never was very specific about cataloging these, and 
> DCRM(B) doesn't seem to add much. It has occurred to me that as genre 
> terms go, "Academic dissertation" does not seem the most appropriate 
> term for these. It makes me think of a modern dissertation which clearly 
> is something quite different from these early disputations. Researchers 
> interested in these early disputations as a group would clearly not be 
> interested in having to search a long list of modern dissertations to 
> find them. Am I missing something obvious? Does anyone have a suggestion 
> of a better way to isolate such records for easy retrieval?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dan Rettberg
> Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer
> Klau Library
> Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
> Cincinnati, Ohio
>
> drettberg at huc.edu
>