[DCRM-L] Signing statement in Connexion pt. 2

[Mark Seidl]

Thanks so much, Richard.

Hope you've been well since those (for me, at least) five glorious days in
June of bibliographic puzzles and conversation.

All best,

Mark

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu>
wrote:

> Huh ... I produce these all the time, and I've never had any trouble with
> '$' in Connexion. I assume you just keyed it directly into the record in
> the usual way, shift-4; but did you cut and paste from some sort of working
> document?
>
> There are indeed no italics in Connexion; I usually state totals as e.g.
> '[32 unnumbered]': a bit cumbersome, but unambiguous. FWIW, I give the
> formats as folio, 4to, 8vo, 12mo etc. You never know what mischief that
> degree sign might get up to...
>
> If this anomaly persists, a query to OCLC might be in order.
>
> Richard
>
> 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 Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Mark Seidl <marseidl at vassar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> At Richard Noble's request I'm posting my query again with the collation
>> I'm trying to get through OCLC.
>>
>> I am attempting to include a full collation in a 500 field of an original
>> record. The signing statement begins with $4 for four leaves signed.
>> However, OCLC Connextion reads this as a subfield 4 and refuses to validate
>> the record.
>>
>> Here's the collation:
>>
>> 8°: ã⁸ ẽ⁸ A-2V⁸ 2X⁴ [ $4 (-ã1,2X3,4) signed]; 364 leaves, pp. [32]
>> 1-680 [16] [misnumbering 183 as 189, 186-7 as 192-3, 190 as 196, 191 as
>> 193, 371 as 571, 634 as 934, 680 as 580]
>>
>> BTW, Connexion also doesn't allow--or I can't find the function--for
>> italicized characters, so the bracketed numbers in the pagination statement
>> which should be italicized aren't. I hope that context in this case
>> indicates that these are total numbers of unnumbered pages, rather than
>> inferred page numbers.
>>
>> Has anyone encountered this problem and, if so, found a way to finesse
>> the code/symbol issue?
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mark Seidl
>> Technical Services Librarian for Special Collections
>> Vassar College Libraries
>> http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/
>> Gargoyle Bulletin <http://pages.vassar.edu/library>
>> http://pages.vassar.edu/library/
>>
>
>


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Mark Seidl
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Vassar College Libraries
http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/
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