[DCRM-L] Authors' inscriptions

[Gemberling, Ted P]

An Annotation is where someone has written a note that isn't really addressed to anyone else. I would assume an Inscription would be something different, but if not a presentation inscription I'm not exactly sure what it would be.

I suppose if someone wrote, "John, I know you will read this someday, and you are a terrible person," that would be a non-presentation inscription!

Ted Gemberling

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Anne,
Please do not put a 500 on the OCLC master record unless, maybe, you have one of two existing copies of the book. I think it just creates clutter to add local notes on master records, especially related to provenance matters like this. If it has something to do with the descriptive cataloging of the item (say pagination), then it makes more sense to put it on the master record.

Not sure what to say about the RBMS heading. I would say if it is an inscription you don't need to add Autograph, because one can usually assume that an inscription will be signed. As for the difference between presentation inscriptions and inscriptions, that is difficult. I don't think I've seen a lot of inscriptions that couldn't be called presentation inscriptions, though I'm sure they do exist.

Christopher's point is a good one. Sometimes you have a copy that you know was presented by the author to someone though there is no handwritten inscription. Presentation copy is the best heading for that.

Ted Gemberling
UAB Libraries

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Hi,
I really need some advice from the experts.

I'm still not sure about the difference between

Authors' autographs (Provenance), and
Authors' inscriptions (Provenance) and
Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

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.

Should I create a 655 field with one of the 3 terms listed above (or something else)?
Should I create a 700 field with the relator term $e autographer, $e inscriber, (or something else)?

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.

Thanks in anticipation.

Anne Newnham
Metadata Specialist
University of Auckland Library
Auckland, New Zealand
a.newnham at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:a.newnham at auckland.ac.nz>

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