[DCRM-L] Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts) now available

[Schneider, Nina]

Dear Colleagues:

The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (RBMS/ACRL) is pleased to announce the publication of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts). DCRM(MSS) covers individual manuscripts on paper, on microfilm, or in the form of digital surrogates. It does not cover manuscript music, manuscript maps, or graphics, all of which are covered by other DCRM manuals currently in development or already published. This manual is the result of the hard work of the DCRM(MSS) editorial team: Alison E. Bridger, Diane Ducharme (SAA Description Section liaison), Kate Moriarty, Jennifer K. Nelson, Margaret Nichols (chair), Elizabeth O'Keefe, and Heather Wolfe. 

The PDFs of the text and the cover are DCRM(MSS) is available here: http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmmss/. They are also available through the list of published manuals on the DCRM page http://rbms.info/dcrm/. 

Enjoy!

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Nina M. Schneider
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee

Rare Books Librarian
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA  90018
(323) 731-8529

nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/