[DCRM-L] Preferred term between "roll" and "scroll" in 300, 500/520 and 655

[Erin Blake]

   For the 655, I'd be inclined to go with LC's Thesaurus for Graphic
Materials, which uses "Scrolls (Visual works)" without any East/West
distinction. The scope note is "Illustrated sheets of paper or cloth,
much longer in one dimension than the other; meant to be rolled up when
not in use." If you want to make a geographical distinction, you could
subdivide the 655.

   Graphic Materials doesn't provide any examples of rolls/scrolls that
I can find, though there is "3B6.2. Multiple sheets composing one image:
When a single image consists of more than one sheet, indicate the number
of sheets in parentheses, e.g.,   1 print (24 sheets)"

   "Scroll" is the term used in the draft of DCRM(G). Using the fullest
possible range of options in the DCRM(G) draft, your example could have
a 300 (with made-up dimensions) along the lines of:  1 print (in 13
sheets) : engraving ; plate marks 25.2 x 30.8 cm or smaller, sheets
joined to 32 x 412 cm, rolled to 32 x 5 cm (scroll)

   The DCRM(G) reason for "1 print" in the 300$a rather than "1 scroll"
is that the 300$a should  indicate the general type of graphic material
in a simple form, and it's fundamentally a print (or a group of prints)
rather than, say, a photograph, drawing, or painting (any of which could
also have been issued in scroll format). The word "scroll" comes at the
end of the 300$c, in parentheses, because "scroll" is a physical format.

    EB.

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