[DCRM-L] Authors' inscriptions

Christopher Case ccase3 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 18:15:37 MST 2020


For these situations I generally employ "Authors presentation inscriptions"
and "Authors presentation copies"

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 8:07 PM Anne Newnham <a.newnham at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I really need some advice from the experts.
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> I’m still not sure about the difference between
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> Authors' autographs (Provenance), and
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> Authors' inscriptions (Provenance) and
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> Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
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> For example, we have a copy of a book inscribed “I shall always thank you,
> Mr. Harvey, for your kind encouragement,  Love and best wishes”, and signed
> by the author.
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> Should I create a 655 field with one of the 3 terms listed above (or
> something else)?
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> Should I create a 700 field with the relator term $e autographer, $e
> inscriber, (or something else)?
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> And lastly, should I put this information on the OCLC copy of the record,
> or just on our local copy? And if on the OCLC copy, should I add a 500 note
> to justify them?  I will definitely have a 500 note in our local copy.
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> Thanks in anticipation.
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> Anne Newnham
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> Metadata Specialist
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> University of Auckland Library
> Auckland, New Zealand
> a.newnham at auckland.ac.nz
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