[DCRM-L] Question re: Manuscript Waste Binding Term

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Hi Laura,



The RBMS controlled vocabularies do not give any instructions about subdividing. In this case, any date you give is going to be ambiguous.



For what it's worth, Folger catalogers historically only subdivided terms taken from Genre Terms, but have now stopped all subdivisions for form/genre terms. The reason: these are headings, so every different subdivision makes a different heading, making browsing a great deal more cumbersome. Add to it the fact that the information provided by subdivisions is for the most part available and actionable elsewhere in the record, we decided that the benefits of not subdividing outweighed the benefits of subdividing.



Deborah J. Leslie | Folger Shakespeare Library | djleslie at folger.edu | 202.675-0369 | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | www. folger.edu



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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Question re: Manuscript Waste Binding Term



I don't know that it's specified anywhere, but I'd expect the date to refer to the date of the binding. If I wanted to describe the manuscript fragment, I'd make a separate entry for it.



John Lancaster





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> On Apr 17, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Erin Schreiner <ESchreiner at nysoclib.org<mailto:ESchreiner at nysoclib.org>> wrote:

>

> I'm posting this on behalf of my colleague, Laura O'Keefe:

>

> Dear Colleagues,

>

> When we use “Manuscript waste (Binding)” in a 655 field and include a time period (for instance, ǂy 16th century), does that time period refer to the century when the volume in hand was bound, or to the date of the manuscript itself?

>

> I’m sure the answer to this question is in the literature in a blindingly obvious place, but since I can’t find it, I’ve come to you with cataloging hat in hand.  Many thanks for any advice.

>

> Best wishes,

>

> Laura K. O’Keefe

> Head of Cataloging and Special Collections The New York Society

> Library
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