[DCRM-L] DCRM-RDA Task Force report

[Manon Theroux]

We might still need guidance for:

-- how to record publisher, distributor, and manufacturer statements
in 264 fields (especially how to code the indicators).
-- how to record copyright dates in 264 fields (e.g. for long
copyright statements, copyright renewal statements, copyright dates
for multi-part monographs, statements with multiple copyright dates,
etc. - all of the things we avoided having to deal with in DCRM(B) by
deciding not to transcribe copyright dates in the 26X).

Although the BSR tells you to include these elements in the record, it
doesn't give you guidance on how to do it. Examples would be great!

Also, because the BSR technically only applies to PCC records, it
might be useful to create some kind of general statement for
catalogers who are not creating PCC records. Something that would
instruct them to follow the BSR guidelines (minus the 042 pcc!) when
creating RDA/DCRM records and would explain that the BSR only provides
a "floor" record that can (should?) be supplemented by following other
instructions in DCRM. For example: I think the BSR only calls for
making a transposition note when transposing title proper and
statement of responsibility, but DCRM calls for also providing such a
note when other elements have been transposed in the description.
Another thing that could be clarified is the BSR instruction to
"Generally record date of manufacture" - it would be good to emphasize
that the DCRM proviso ("only if it applies, or is likely to apply, to
all copies of the edition or issue being cataloged") is still valid.

-Manon

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Manon Théroux
Head of Technical Services
U.S. Senate Library
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Washington, DC  20510-7112
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
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> One of the charges of the TF was to give specific and immediate guidance to
> catalogers wanting to catalog rare materials according to RDA. I am thinking
> that the recent BSR for rare materials approved by the Bibliographic
> Standards Committee does that. Do others agree? No need to reinvent the
> wheel if the recent work by Bob Maxwell, Francis Lapka, and Jain Fletcher is
> satisfactory. The link below to the ALA Connect vote contains the attached
> proposed BSR.
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> http://connect.ala.org/node/186329
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> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare
> Library
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> djleslie at folger.edu | 202.675-0369 | www.folger.edu
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