[DCRM-L] RDA revision proposals -- Early Printed Resources and Rare Printed Resources

[Noble, Richard]

Isn't this really, at base, "enhanced carrier description"? I'm not sure
about the reception that phrase might get ("Fancy themselves, don't they,
those Rare Cats with their 'enhanced' descriptions"), but something on that
level of generality would finesse the over-specificity that we're trying to
avoid.

"Enhanced carrier description" for *any* materials, whether early, rare,
intensively collected, whatever, to be applied at the discretion of the
cataloging agency.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
<Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu>
wrote:

> Agreed with Will Evans that "rare printed resources" should replace "early
> printed resources". The latter, though fuzzy (what's "early'?) is
> proscriptive. "Rare" is a value judgment made at the institutional level,
> and might be defined as "whatever it is that we think should be cataloged
> as 'rare'", for the purpose of which an alternate set of practices for more
> precise and complete physical description are provided.
>
> "Rare" may be even fuzzier than "early"--so much the better.
>
> RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
> BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
> <Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Will Evans <evans at bostonathenaeum.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Regarding Issue 3:
>>
>>
>>
>> I’d would argue that  “early printed resources” could be struck from the
>> language entirely and replaced by “rare printed resources.”  The following
>> rules could also be applied to 21st century artists’ books, where these
>> resources often lack title-pages and the artist acts the manufacturer,
>> publisher, distributer, etc.
>>
>>
>>
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