[DCRM-L] Missing title page

[Karen Nelson]

Gosh, how embarrassing. Of course, thesis.
(I have had one item today that comprised three theses, but this is not it!)
My excuse is... this is my Friday? No, not good enough...

I will send some scans off-list.

Thanks, Jane.


From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> On Behalf Of Jane Stemp Wickenden
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:54 AM
To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Missing title page


Hi Karen,

[Theses] seems a bit odd unless you are sure there is more than one thesis in the item.

If I were cataloguing this I'd be inclined to do something along the lines of your lean title suggestion, only not quite so lean, and then add a note.

245 10 $a [Thesis on subject].

500 ## $a Deals with [whatever your identified subject is].

If the thesis is in Latin and if you'd like Latin assistance, do feel free to send me an image off-list.

Also (and this may seem an odd last resort, but it's worked for me before now), have you tried Google Books or the "search text" option of archive.org to search for significant phrases? That may pick up something useful.

Best wishes,

Jane


On 26/09/2019 16:29, Karen Nelson wrote:
Hello, experts;

Could someone describe best practice for providing a title for a resource for which the title page is missing, but there is no internal evidence - and none externally either - of what the title was?

(Have read DCRM-B 0C3. No title page - and also section 7, Note area.)*

In other such cases I have been able to locate the resource or something related, online, and to consult the title page seen there.
For this one, nada.

I have a rough date (not before 1715) based on content, a subject (or at least, one of them), and a country of publication.
It's probably, but not definitely a theses/dissertation, but 245 $a[Theses] seems lean and not too helpful.


1.       Do I transcribe the opening sentences into 245 and back up with a note?


2.       Use a lean supplied title and put the opening sentences in the note? There are no chapter headings to use in a 505.



3.       None of the above, but something else?



4.       *Am I missing pertinent instruction in DCRM-B?



Thanks, anyone who has time to help.

Karen

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