[DCRM-L] Question about numerical part of a multi-volume work

Jane Stemp Wickenden jane.wickenden at zen.co.uk
Mon Dec 19 20:20:09 MST 2016


Ted, 

Personally I would have what you see on the title page as 245, and cover the overall title with 240 $a Omnia quae extant opera. $n 6. $p. Chirurgiae pars.

But I may be behind the times.

Jane

On 20 December 2016 02:37:36 GMT+00:00, "Gemberling, Ted P" <tgemberl at uab.edu> wrote:
>I am cataloging the 6th part (actually the 7th) of an 11-volume work.
>You can see a record for all the volumes at OCLC #808232373. I don’t
>consider it appropriate to use that record because we only have the one
>volume. We put signatures on our DCRM(b) records, and I would not have
>them for any of the other volumes. Also, I can’t verify the
>transcription for them. So I want to create a record just for our
>volume. The problem is that the title for the whole set (Galeni omnia
>quae extant opera) is not on our volume. I tried creating a record like
>this:
>
>Galeni omnia quae extant opera. ǂn Sexta classis, ǂp eam chirurgi[ae]
>partem amplectitur, qu[ae] ad cucurbitulas, scarificationes, hirudines,
>deriuationem, reuulsionem, ac phlebotomiam spectat ...
>
>Is that possible in DCRM(b)? Does it conflict with rule 1B6? 1B6 seems
>to say do something like this: Galeni omnia quae extant opera. Sexta
>classis : ǂb eam chirurgi[ae] partem …
>
>Or is that incorrect, too? 1B6 seems to be about a case where the title
>page (or chief source of information) has the title of the whole work.
>You transpose it if the name for the part comes first and add a note
>indicating the transposition. But in my case, I only know the name of
>the whole work from a bibliographic record in OCLC. Would you state
>that in the record for the part? Would it have to be in brackets in the
>245?
>
>Any guidance you can give will be helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ted P. Gemberling
>Historical Collections Cataloger
>UAB Lister Hill Library, rm. 234B
>1720 Second Ave. South
>Birmingham, Ala. 35294-0013
>Phone: (205)934-2461
>Fax: (205)934-3545

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