[DCRM-L] ISBD Area 0 (content form; media type) and Rare Materials cataloging

[Kate Moriarty]

I think I like the idea of taking the content form, etc. out of the 245 and
giving it its own variable field. It can serve as a good flag to users as to
the form of the resource and is less confusing when separated from the title
and statement of responsibility.

I'm not sure how helpful the manuscript- and graphic-related vocabularies
provided by the ISBD 0 report and MARBI proposal are. As best as I can tell,
the options for graphic material is "Image: (ISBD) or "Still image" (MARBI /
RDA). For manuscript material I could only come up with "Text" from each of
the proposals. I don't see any way of indicating that the text is, for
example, a handwritten manuscript. Would that designation be left to the
form/genre terms to express?

-Kate

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alison Bridger <aebridger at yahoo.com> wrote:

> While I was at Bancroft (and this would not have changed since the position
> is still open) we used the $k for some of our single item manuscript
> materials but not all mss/archival materials. Like ALS for letters or
> typescript and manuscript for items with formal titles. Although I did drop
> using ALS at some point as I felt that most of our users would not really
> know what that meant. Can't recall what was done with graphic materials at
> Bancroft but I seem to remember something was added, possibly a $h graphics.
> James Eason can probably shed some light on that ...
>
> Alison
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Elizabeth O'Keefe <EOKEEFE at themorgan.org>
> *To:* dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:27:47 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] ISBD Area 0 (content form; media type) and Rare
> Materials cataloging
>
> This is a very knotty topic. Though in some ways the loss of the GMD (if
> RDA outlaws it) is to be regretted, the allowable terms were often so vague
> or so library-speak ("realia") as to be useless. Even "graphic" (one of the
> better terms) is too vague, if your users care whether the item is a
> drawing, a print, or a photograph.
>
> Earlier drafts of RDA contemplated some sort of  arrangement that would
> relate the specific material designation more closely to the more general
> terms, facilitating displays like:
>
> Image : Graphic : Drawing
>
> But this fell by the wayside.
>
> I don't know how many cataloging agencies were using $h [manuscript]. Many
> probably preferred to follow APPM practice, and therefore included the word
> manuscript in the $k; those who cared about AACR may have been discouraged
> from using $h manuscript because LC does not use it.
>
> Liz O'Keefe
> >>> "Erin Blake" <EBlake at FOLGER.edu> 1/15/2009 10:39:30 AM >>>
>
> On behalf of the editorial team working on DCRM(Graphics), what are other
> DCRM communities, especially the three M's -- Manuscripts, Music, and Maps
> -- thinking about proposed ISBD Area 0 (*
> http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/isbdrg/ISBD_Area_0_WWR.htm*<http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/isbdrg/ISBD_Area_0_WWR.htm>)
> and the related MARBI proposal no. 2008-05/3 (
> http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2008/2008-05-3.html)?
>
> In the words of the MARBI proposal for Media type, Carrier type, and
> Content type, "These three elements are intended as replacements for the
> general material designation (GMD) defined in AACR2 1.1C, which is currently
> recorded in field 245 (Title statement) subfield $h (Medium)."
>
> Here at the Folger, 245$h [graphic] and [manuscript] are regularly used in
> rare materials cataloging.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>      EB.
>
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