[DCRM-L] Asterism

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Blame acknowledged and accepted.

One of us should get a sabbatical and publish a book on square brackets
in the cataloger's psyche.

-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Margaret F Nichols
Sent: Monday, 31 October, 2011 20:59
To: rbrandt at library.berkeley.edu; DCRMRevision Group List
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Asterism

Thanks for sharing, Randy! The result looks a little like a bowling ball
with ears. You can tell that the asterism was supplied by the cataloger
because it's in square brackets.

Margaret

________________________________________
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] on behalf
of Randal Brandt [rbrandt at library.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 8:40 PM
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Asterism

Last night, staring at a blank pumpkin, waiting for inspiration to
strike,
all I could think of was "asterism." OK, I cheated and used dots instead
of asterisks (you try carving an asterisk! I have new-found respect for
type-cutters). And I added square brackets, just because.

I blame you all.

Happy Halloween.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7321780@N05/6300754020/

Randy


> That doesn't matter, it's the character itself that's important. Take
> paragraph marks, which are used to mark the beginning of new
paragraphs
> in text, but that doesn't mean they're any less paragraph marks when
> used to sign gatherings.
>
>
>
> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu]
On
> Behalf Of Hal Cain
> Sent: Monday, 31 October, 2011 18:29
> To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Asterism
>
>
>
>       Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:53:50 +0000
>       From: Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
>       Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Asterism
>       To: DCRM Revision Group List <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
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>       I have to agree with Richard. This evidently useful term appears
> to be news to the experienced rare materials catalogers here,
including,
> perhaps, even you, Deborah (at least I got that impression from your
> first message)-if none of us had ever heard of it before this dcrm-l
> exchange, how can we expect users of the catalog to know what we are
> talking about?
>
>
>
> The commonest Australian general dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary,
> gives meanings only in astronomy and crystallography. A definition
> search in Google elicits: "A group of three asterisks (***) drawing
> attention to following text." That doesn't seem to me to be exactly
what
> Deborah is talking about.
>
>
>
> Hal Cain
>
> Melbourne, Australia
>
> hegcain at gmail.com
>
>


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Randal Brandt
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