[DCRM-L] FW: RDA label "Early Printed Resources" -- revision proposal

[JOHN C ATTIG]

You should be aware that the scope of "early printed resources" in RDA was raised by ALA in its responses to drafts of RDA. There was reluctance to broaden the scope to include more recent special collections, and the phrase and its definition were agreed upon. 

This does not mean that the JSC would not be willing to reconsider the question, but you should be aware that this was an intentional decision and that the arguments you cite here were made at the time. 

John Attig 
ALA Representative to the JSC 
jxa16 at psu.edu 

----- Original Message -----

| From: "Francis Lapka" <francis.lapka at yale.edu>
| To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
| Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:01:32 AM
| Subject: [DCRM-L] FW: RDA label "Early Printed Resources" -- revision
| proposal

| RDA offers guidelines for “Early printed resources” in 14 distinct
| rules. At the end of this message, I append a compilation of each
| instance (thanks to Lori Dekydtspotter for fishing these out!). Of
| the 14 instances, the phrase “Early printed resource(s)” occurs as
| follows:
| · In the title of a rule: 4 times
| · As a label at the beginning of a rule, in conjunction with RDA
| exceptions: 8 times
| · As in-line text: in all 14 instances

| “Early printed resources” also appears in the RDA glossary, where it
| is defined as “Materials manufactured before the advent of machine
| printing in approximately 1825-1830.” This definition echoes a
| sentence from the definition of scope in DCRM(B): “DCRM(B) is
| especially appropriate for the description of publications produced
| before the introduction of machine printing in the nineteenth
| century.”

| That scope paragraph in DCRM(B) continues: “ However, it may be used
| to describe any printed monograph, including machine-press
| publications, artists’ books, private press books, and other
| contemporary materials.” This more inclusive application seems
| entirely lacking in RDA’s scope for “Early printed resources.”

| We discussed this issue at the Midwinter meeting of BSC, where there
| was a consensus that RDA’s current handling of guidelines for “Early
| printed resources” is probably too limiting. Members of BSC agreed
| that it would be appropriate to propose a revision to: (a) the
| “Early printed resources” label, (b) the label’s definition in the
| RDA glossary, or (c) both. Any revision we propose would be
| submitted to CC:DA and (provided it is approved), from there to JSC.

| At this time, I’d like to throw the discussion open to the greater
| wisdom of the list. I’ll begin with one possibility, bandied among
| members of the DCRM(B) for RDA revision group:
| · For “early printed resources,” substitute “special collections
| resources”
| · In the RDA glossary, define “special collections resources” in
| terms similar to the scope of DCRM(B): “ … especially appropriate
| for the description of resources produced before the introduction of
| machine printing in the nineteenth century. However, it may be used
| to describe any printed resource, including machine-press
| publications, artists’ books, private press books, and other
| contemporary materials.”

| Note that this proposal has no immediate bearing on DCRM(B) or its
| revision. The revision to RDA would simply encourage the wider
| application of a set of RDA guidelines concerning special
| collections material, for catalogers who may never have the ability
| or inclination to apply DCRM.

| Your thoughts and suggestions are desired.

| Thanks,
| Francis

| “Early printed resources” in RDA

| 1.8.1. Numbers Expressed as Numerals or as Words—General Guidelines
| Alternative: For early printed resources , transcribe numbers
| expressed as numerals or as words appearing in numbering of serials,
| date of production, date of publication, date of distribution, or
| date of manufacture in the form in which they appear on the source
| of information.

| 2.2.2.2. Resources Consisting of One or More Pages, Leaves, Sheets,
| or Cards (or Images of One or More Pages, Leaves, Sheets, or Cards)
| Exception: Early printed resources . If an early printed resource (or
| a reproduction thereof) lacks a title page, title sheet, or title
| card (or image thereof), use as the preferred source of information
| the first of the following sources that bears a title …

| 2.8.4.1. Publisher's Name—Scope
| For early printed resources , printers and booksellers are treated as
| publishers.

| 3.4.5.2. Single Volume With Numbered Pages, Leaves, or Columns.
| Exception: Early printed resources. For early printed resources ,
| record each sequence of leaves, pages, or columns in the terms and
| form presented. If the resource is printed in pages but numbered as
| leaves, record the numbering as leaves …

| 3.4.5.3.1. Numbered and Unnumbered Sequences
| Exception: Early printed resources . For early printed resources ,
| record unnumbered sequences of pages, leaves, or columns.

| 3.4.5.3.2 . Inessential Matter
| Exception: Early printed resources . For early printed resources ,
| record pages containing advertisements (when this can be done
| succinctly) if those pages are: …

| 3.4.5.4 . Change in Form of Numbering within a Sequence
| Exception: Early printed resources . For early printed resources ,
| record the numbering in the form presented.

| 3.4.5.8 . Complicated or Irregular Paging, Etc.
| Exception: Early printed resources . For early printed resources ,
| record the paging, etc., in the form and sequence presented.

| 3.4.5.9 . Leaves or Pages of Plates
| Exception: Early printed resources . For early printed resources , if
| the leaves and pages of plates are numbered, or if there are both
| numbered and unnumbered plates, record each sequence of leaves and
| pages of plates in the appropriate terms.

| 3.4.5.14. Single Sheet
| Exception: Early printed resources . For an early printed resource
| consisting of a single sheet designed to be used unfolded (whether
| issued folded or unfolded), include a count of the number of pages
| printed, not counting blank pages.

| 3.21.2.1. Item-Specific Carrier Characteristic of Early Printed
| Resource —Scope
| An item-specific carrier characteristic of early printed resource is
| a characteristic that applies to the carrier or carriers of the
| specific early printed item being described and is assumed not to
| apply to other items exemplifying the same manifestation.
| Item-specific carrier characteristics of early printed resources
| include rubrication, illumination, and other hand colouring,
| manuscript additions, and binding.

| 3.21.2.2. ( Item-Specific Carrier Characteristic of Early Printed
| Resource) —Sources of Information
| Use evidence presented by the resource itself (or on any accompanying
| material or container) as the basis for recording item-specific
| carrier characteristics of an early printed resource . If desired,
| take additional evidence from any source.

| 3.21.2.2. Recording Item-Specific Carrier Characteristics of an Early
| Printed Resource
| For early printed resources , make notes giving details of pagination
| not recorded formally as part of the extent element (see 3.4.5.2 –
| 3.4.5.13 ), or on aspects of collation, the layout of sheets, etc.,
| if they are considered important for identification or selection

| 3.22.2.9 (Note on Extent of Manifestation) Early Printed Resources
| For early printed resources , make notes giving details of pagination
| not recorded formally as part of the extent element (see 3.4.5.2 –
| 3.4.5.13 ), or on aspects of collation, the layout of sheets, etc.,
| if they are considered important for identification or selection.

| _________________________________
| Francis Lapka, Catalog Librarian
| Yale Center for British Art, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
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