[DCRM-L] Update on the RBMS Policy Statements to RDA

[Mascaro, Michelle]

My sincere apologies for bumping the wrong key and sending out a barely drafted response….

Thank you for mentioning this, Erin.  As some further clarification, the section you mention on page 20 of the BSR is “archival materials” and specifically addresses the creation of collection level records using RDA and DACS.  For catalogers that are creating catalog records for individual manuscripts according to DCRM(MSS), there are no provisions in the BSR For creating DCRM(MSS) compliant RDA records.  The backstory on this is the timing of DCRM(MSS)’s publication hit right when the BSR gotten frozen for revisions due to the RDA 3R project, and there was not an opportunity to incorporate rare materials guidance for individual manuscripts based on DCRM(MSS) into the BSR.

Best,

Michelle










From: Mascaro, Michelle
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 12:07 PM
To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: RE: [DCRM-L] Update on the RBMS Policy Statements to RDA

Thanks for being this up, Erin. The guidance you mentioned in the BSR o

From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu<mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu>> On Behalf Of Erin Blake
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 11:47 AM
To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu<mailto:dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Update on the RBMS Policy Statements to RDA

Quick clarification about manuscripts: the BSR actually does make provision for manuscripts (starts on page 20), it's just that RBMS doesn't provide "rare materials" guidance on manuscripts (other than rare cartographic manuscripts and rare music manuscripts, through their respective DCRM modules).

Erin.

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On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:21 PM Mascaro, Michelle <mmascaro at ucsd.edu<mailto:mmascaro at ucsd.edu>> wrote:

At ALA Annual 2019, the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee had several discussions regarding what tools and guidance the rare materials cataloging community needs in order to catalog rare materials in conjunction with the new RDA.  The conclusion of the discussions was that in depth guidance that rare materials catalogers rely on in the current Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (DCRM) manuals cannot effectively be reproduced by policy statements in the Beta Toolkit alone and a change of approach was necessary.  The RBMS Policy Statements Editorial Group (a “subgroup” of the Bibliographic Standards Committee) has been renamed the RBMS RDA Editorial Group and charged with developing guidance and tools for cataloging rare materials according to RDA as needed by the community.

The editorial group will revise the current DCRM manuals (starting with Books) to be RDA compliant and align with the RDA Element Set.  (Language in the revised manual will be heavily based on the current manuals.)  The new manual will be published as a free online resource outside the Toolkit.  Like the RDA Toolkit (and the 2002 revision of AACR2), the revised DCRM manuals will be considered an integrating resources and updates incorporated as needed.

The editorial group will also create a set of policy statements for publication within the Toolkit.  The policy statements will be short and concise and link to the revised DCRM Manual for fuller instructions/guidance. (For example, apply this option; see DCRM X.X for additional guidance.)

Until the new guidelines are complete, rare materials catalogers, who wish to create RDA-acceptable DCRM records, should follow provisions for rare materials included in the RDA BIBCO Standard Record (BSR)<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Faba%2Fpcc%2Fbibco%2Fdocuments%2FPCC-RDA-BSR.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cefh7%40psu.edu%7C4c7df33d6b6440bf274308d707107e7c%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C1%7C636985640257471681&sdata=nHOf1WqJc7OieKr%2BcTD8vQa8x%2FhU8aGti19jSI54%2BkA%3D&reserved=0>.  See the BSC statement on DCRM and RDA<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frbms.info%2Fdcrm%2Frda%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cefh7%40psu.edu%7C4c7df33d6b6440bf274308d707107e7c%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C1%7C636985640257481674&sdata=5NDOlx1%2FflXo8U9qBfNuzTtRG94WYvlUaBtSW6yjSCA%3D&reserved=0> for additional details.  As there are no manuscript provisions in the BSR, manuscript catalogers should continue to catalog according to DCRM(MSS), using RDA guidelines for access points.

Best,

Elizabeth Hobart and Michelle Mascaro, RBMS RDA Editorial Group, co-editors

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