[DCRM-L] Survey on User Needs for Single Item Manuscript Catalog Records

[Jennifer MacDonald]

The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts
Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
has charged a Review Group to evaluate the revision or integration of two
current cataloging manuals, Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval,
Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts (AMREMM) and Descriptive
Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts) (DCRM(MSS)).

As part of the review, the Review Group is seeking to learn what the data
needs are of users searching for or researching single item manuscripts of
any time period.

We cordially invite you to take the survey if you search for or describe
single item manuscripts in any way. Those invited include researchers,
faculty members, independent scholars, graduate and undergraduate students,
catalogers, archivists, metadata specialists, curators, other librarians,
and others who research or work with manuscripts.

The survey should take 10 to 15 minutes, and can be found here:
https://forms.gle/RzERYUbkirFV7Y1n8

Please respond by 12:00 midnight (EST) on July 9, 2019. Your response will
help us make catalog records for manuscripts more useful and accessible. If
you have any questions, please contact Jennifer MacDonald at
jsmacdon at udel.edu. Thank you in advance for your time.

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[image: University of Delaware]

Jennifer MacDonald MA, PhD, MSLIS

Associate Librarian and Coordinator, Special Collections Cataloging Unit

Cataloging Department

University of Delaware
(302) 831-1512
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