[DCRM-L] Cataloging of single leaves

[Lenore Rouse]

I have wrestled with this problem on several occasions and wished there 
was more guidance in the rules. I do think it is important to state at 
the outset that you have a fragment of some sort. When I looked at how 
other catalogers dealt with the problem, I found considerable variation, 
so pretty much comped together my own standard, with a 
cataloger-supplied title of [Detached leaf of....].  See OCLC 297529215 
for an example. I guess the question is knowing how to draw a line 
between a record for a fragment and a record for a whole which is 
imperfect.

best
Lenore
 



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Lenore M. Rouse
Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections
Adjunct Professor, School of Library and Information Science
The Catholic University of America
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