[DCRM-L] Academic disputations

[Margaret Nichols]

That's fantastic, Bob! We have a collection of 6,200 such items 
(German, from 1580-ca. 1850), so it's great to have a term for them 
besides "those pamphlety things."

Margaret

At 03:58 PM 3/13/2008, Robert Maxwell wrote:
>Yes, we did do a SACO submission for Academic disputations, which 
>was accepted and is now in LCSH. This should be coded
>
>655 -0 Academic disputations.
>
>(Don't use the second indicator 7 or subfield 2 lcsh anymore, now 
>that second indicator 0 has been approved for LCSH terms.)
>
>We did the SACO submission for the exact purpose of using the term 
>in 655 (because as you say, Dan, "Academic dissertations" isn't 
>right for these).
>
>Bob
>
>Robert L. Maxwell
>Head, Special Collections and Metadata Catalog Dept.
>6728 Harold B. Lee Library
>Brigham Young University
>Provo, UT 84602
>(801)422-5568
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Laurence Creider
>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:33 AM
>To: Rettberg, Dan
>Cc: DCRM Revision Group List
>Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Academic disputations
>
>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
> >

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