[DCRM-L] 510 citations

[Cates, Patrick]

I think it would be a really good idea to expand the scope of SCF to
include works that are likely to be cited in notes but aren't
bibliographies (for example, catalogs of printer's devices, ornaments,
watermarks, etc.). I bet McKerrow and Ferguson is cited in more records
than a lot of the titles in SCF; what sense does it make to exclude it?

Patrick Cates
Technical Services Librarian
Christoph Keller, Jr. Library
General Theological Seminary
440 W. 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
646-717-9789

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Manon Theroux <manon.theroux at gmail.com>
wrote:

***SNIPPED***

    If the SCF editorial team wants to expand the scope of the SCF beyond
bibliographies and catalogs, that's their call. I think it is certainly
possible for other types of reference sources and scholarly publications to
contain published descriptions of items being cataloged (even ones that
rival the most detailed bibliographies and catalogs) and maybe a more
refined set of criteria for submissions could be identified. But I can also
see how keeping the current scope might be seen as preferable to them for
practical reasons if nothing else (workload concerns!). Maybe something for
them to ponder and address in their guidelines at some point in the future.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserver.lib.byu.edu/pipermail/dcrm-l/attachments/20150812/bf1c4869/attachment.html>