[DCRM-L] prospectuses

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Thanks, Bob; I'd come to the conclusion that 6xx was the better place
for it, and will mull over whether a 7xx work added entry is also called
for. 

 

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert Maxwell
Sent: Saturday, 12 September, 2009 19:18
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] prospectuses

 

I give a uniform title in a 600 (or 630) when cataloging a prospectus at
the item level, since the prospectus is about the book. That is the
subject of what you are cataloging, so I think a subject tracing should
be made. However, a 7XX tracing is also appropriate, since the work
embodied in the book described in the prospectus is clearly a "related
work" to the prospectus (which itself is a work, the one you happen to
be cataloging).

 

So my practice is to put it in 6XX and that is where I would expect to
find it if I were looking in the catalog for prospectuses about a book.
So I would recommend that as at a minimum. It would not be wrong, in
addition, to have a 7XX related work entry.

 

Note: in most cases at BYU, however, we catalog prospectuses on a
collection-level record for ephemera from the press producing the book,
so we don't usually create item-level records for prospectuses. But when
we do my practice has been as described.

 

Here are some examples of our collection-level records:

 

http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/ckey-search/3966269 (Foolscap Press)

 

http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/ckey-search/3965780 (Incline Press)

 

For very large collections we make separate records by year

 

http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/ckey-search/3966251 (Arion Press,
2008)

 

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 

 

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:59 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] prospectuses

 

I'm cataloging a prospectus. Does it make more sense to put the
name/title tracing as a 600 or a 700? I keep wavering, and I've seen it
done both ways. The prospectus is about the publication, just as the
publication is a related work to the prospectus. Putting it in both
seems like overkill.

 

Thanks for any discussion; perhaps we can establish an informal
convention.

 

__________________________ 
Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. 
RBMS Chair 2009-2010 | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library 
201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003 | 202.675-0369 
djleslie at folger.edu | http://www.folger.edu <http://www.folger.edu/>  

 

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