[DCRM-L] Cataloging of single leaves

[Robert Maxwell]

On the original suggestion of using a uniform title: in AACR2 there really isn't a very good way of making a uniform title for a manifestation, which is what would be needed, e.g., something like (for the leaf contained in the 1966 leaf book "Nicolas Jenson"):

Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia. Italian. Jenson (1476). Fragments.

or perhaps

Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia. Italian. Jenson (1476). Leaf 55.

I think it would be great to start adding "manifestation identifiers" (i.e. uniform titles for manifestations, or for that matter for items) to records, but we're not there with AACR2 (at least not in North American practice) and I'm not sure we'll get there with RDA. 

Meanwhile it is possible to do something like this in an uncontrolled field (245) as Jane pointed out, although as Deborah points out if one did that the record would only apply to that leaf, not to another copy of the whole book. However, that does seem to be what the original query suggested would be helpful to our users.

Bob


Robert L. Maxwell
Head, Special Collections and Metadata Catalog Dept.
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
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Deborah

True enough. Thanks for the reminder.

Jane


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That wouldn't be applicable if a library has one or more complete copies, unless you wanted to give the fragment its own record.

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Stemp Wickenden
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I was just heading towards the concept of

245 $a Main title. $h [Fragment] when Dick Miller’s e-mail arrived, which is simply how I would have dealt with it in the absence of finding a rule, and supposing I could identify the title from the fragment anyway.

Jane


Mrs J.V.S. Wickenden

Historic Collections Library

Institute of Naval Medicine

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Dick Miller
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Have you considered a uniform title with $k Fragments ? Not sure about current practice. Dick

At 09:39 AM 4/6/2010, you wrote:
Has anyone approached the cataloging of an individual leaf (or leaves) in a manner in which the physical description reflects only what you have (vs. DCRM(B) 5B1.1)? The question is prompted by a loan request in which the requester did not realize that our "copy" was merely two leaves of a publication. This information is stated in a local note, but one of our public services librarians feels that this is not a very user friendly way of saying we have only two leaves.

Thanks,
Ryan

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Dick R. Miller
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