[DCRM-L] FW: BSR and rare books/material

[Stephen Skuce]

I've just emerged from a daylong candidate interview, and have just have
time to read through these emails fairly quickly.

Clearly, Bib Standards needs to explore the implications of all this, and
there appear to be a few intertwined issues. But I'm not in a BIBCO library,
and I am ignorant of some of the politics in play. The power structure
(BIBCO in relation to The Rest Of Us) isn't entirely clear to me. 

So I'll want to confer with one or two of the individuals who've commented
here. And then it seems we'll want a BSC subgroup to begin working on it. 

But a question, arising from my ignorance of the power structures here: is
it clear that we'll need to devise a BSR for rare materials, or is there
another approach that could work? To put it another way: is it really a
given that core records are out of favor and are being eliminated, in which
case we needn't bother trying to defend (or update) the existing "DCRB
core"?

Stephen
(Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee)

Stephen Skuce
Rare Books Program Coordinator
Institute Archives and Special Collections
MIT Room 14N-118
77 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
617.253.0654

-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert Maxwell
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:36 PM
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] FW: BSR and rare books/material

In practice, for our cataloging at BYU there is no DCRM(B) difference
between a core PCC record and a full PCC record. The only difference is that
we label the record PCC core when we omit the call number, which DCRM(B)
doesn't cover. Otherwise the record is identical to a DCRM(B) full record
(not that we necessarily invoke every single DCRM(B) option, of course). We
only code DCRM(B) records as core when we are going to use a local call
number scheme and don't think it worthwhile (or don't have the time) to work
out a national-level call number for each item. (And also of course we also
only do this when we're creating PCC/BIBCO records, which is most of the
time, but when we aren't doing PCC/BIBCO we don't think the various BIBCO
standards apply particularly.)

I believe DCRM(B) Appendix C follows the information in the BIBCO rare core
("DCRB Core") standard pretty exactly
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/coredcrb.html. 

The publication of Appendix C with DCRM(B) makes the DCRB core pretty
intimately related to DCRM(B). However, it might be worthwhile for BSC to
take the initiative and volunteer to update DCRB core into a "BIBCO Standard
Record for Rare Printed Monographs."

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
Genre/Form Authorities Librarian
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 Deborah J. Leslie
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:13 PM
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] FW: BRS and rare books/material

What is the relationship of DCRB Core to DCRM(B)? Are DCRB Core
principles followed regarding what's mandatory, &c., while DCRM(B) is
followed for the formulation of those areas and elements? 

Who out there besides Bob is creating DCRB core records? 


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