[DCRM-L] Cataloging known forgeries

[Robert Maxwell]

What about the genre/form term "Forgeries" from printing & publishing? That seems clearer than "false association copies". 

I suppose it depends on what your group of "forgeries" consists of. Are they forgeries in the sense that the work is attributed to someone who didn't actually write it? This sort of thing happened routinely in the ancient world, but I wouldn't call that a forgery. Or are they forgeries in the sense that somebody is trying to pass off something he just printed in his basement as a 1st edition Steinbeck?

Robert L. Maxwell
Head, Special Collections and Metadata Catalog Dept.
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568


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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Schneider, Nina
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:41 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Cataloging known forgeries

Does anyone have experience cataloging known forgeries? The Clark has a
small group of these and I'm wondering if there is a "proper" way to
describe them.

Here is what we're thinking: cataloging according to DCRM(B) rules on
fictitious or incorrect information, using the relator code, "attributed
name" after our supposed author, and adding "False association copies"
from Provenance Evidence in a 655 field. Although these steps should
make it clear that we really don't have an Einstein pamphlet or letters
of Nathaniel Hawthorne, I just want to make sure we aren't missing
anything before we proceed.

Thanks for any advice!

Nina

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Nina Schneider
Head Cataloger
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA  90018

323-731-8529
nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu