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

[Margaret F. Nichols]

Thanks very much, Matt! We really appreciate your submitting the request for a code and monitoring this.

Margaret

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew C. Haugen
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 9:24 PM
To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts) now available

Congratulations to the DCRM(MSS) editorial team on completing the manual!

For others as eager as I am to begin using DCRM(MSS), I thought I should point out that a descriptive conventions source code (040 $e) was requested from the MARC Standards Office just after the BSC vote to approve DCRM(MSS) at ALA Annual in Orlando.

A code has not been announced in the technical notices issued since then, nor added to the list of codes<http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/descriptive-conventions.html>, so I expect that the request is still in review.

If and when approved, I expect it will be announced in an upcoming MARC technical notice<http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcginf.html#naa>. These notices typically request a 60-day embargo on implementation in exchange records, so that the code can be added to validation tables.

I'll send an update to DCRM-L list as soon as I hear more.

Matt

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Schneider, Nina <nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu>> wrote:
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<tel:%28323%29%20731-8529>

nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu>
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/



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Matthew C. Haugen
Rare Book Cataloger
102 Butler Library
Columbia University Libraries
E-mail: matthew.haugen at columbia.edu<mailto:matthew.haugen at columbia.edu>
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