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

[Matthew C. Haugen]

Hi Allison, The 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, about two months ago.

We requested "dcrmmss" but the Standards Office has not yet approved the
request, and it's possible they may choose a code different from what we
requested. When approved, the new code will be announced in a MARC technical
notice <http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcginf.html#naa> and added to the MARC list
of descriptive convention source codes.
<http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/descriptive-conventions.html>

I do expect that the approved code will not contain parentheses, as in your
example. Codes are composed of lowercase alphabetic characters, numeric
characters 0 through 9, and the hyphen (-), up to a maximum of 12
characters.

Once MARC announces a new code in a technical notice, they request a 60-day
waiting period on implementation in exchange records, so that the code can
be added to validation tables. The MARC source code site says "Implementers
may use newly assigned codes in their internal systems immediately as long
as records containing new codes are not distributed until after the waiting
period."

As for OCLC, I think we may have to wait until the next OCLC-MARC technical
bulletin that we will see the code validate in OCLC, and those appear to
come out annually.

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

Matt


On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Allison Rich <allison_rich at brown.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Nina and all:
>
> Question here!!
> I have just encoded the "$e dcrm(mss)" in the 040 in a new MARC record in
> OCLC today.
> The code is unrecognized in OCLC and, thus, the record will not verify.
>
> Can anyone advise on this from OCLC?
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Best,
> Allison
>
> 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!
>
> +---------------
> 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.eduhttp://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/
>
>
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> --
>
> ********************************
> "Outside of a dog,
> a book is probably man's best friend,
> and inside of a dog,
> it's too dark to read.
> - Groucho Marx"
>
> Allison Rich
> Rare Materials Cataloguer
> ESTC and NACO Coordinator
>
> John Carter Brown Library
> Providence, Rhode IslandAllison_Rich at brown.edu
>
> ********************************
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Matthew C. Haugen
Rare Book Cataloger
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Columbia University Libraries
E-mail: matthew.haugen at columbia.edu
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