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>From jane.gillis@YALE.EDU Thu Sep 28 11:08:53 2000
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:50:15 -0400
From: Jane Gillis <jane.gillis@YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Title history" in Rare Book Cataloging (Maija Cravens)
Dear Maija,
This is cataloging from the Library of Congress. LC has a very large
collection of almanacs that are being cataloged by earliest entry with title
variations. Early almanacs pose many problems in cataloging: frequent changes
in title, imprint, etc. Some libraries, such as the American Antiquarian
Society, have cataloged these as monographs using DCRB, the cataloging rules
for rare books. Early American almanacs are listed in Evans, Shaw & Shoemaker
and/or Drake and can be easily referenced in a 510 note.
Juliet McLaren (ESTC Project, UC Riverside) and I are working on a draft of a
rare serials cataloging manual under the auspices of the Bibliographic
Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL. The
draft is at:
http://www.library.yale.edu/conser/documents/dcrs.html
We would really like to have you, or anyone else on the list, read and
comment.
Jane Gillis | Cataloger, Rare Book Team | Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University | New Haven CT 06520
(203)432-8383 (voice) | (203)432-7231 (fax) | jane.gillis@ yale.edu
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>From mmav@LOC.GOV Thu Sep 28 11:08:53 2000
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:00:57 -0400
From: Maryvonne Mavroukakis <mmav@LOC.GOV>
Subject: Re: "Title history" in Rare Book Cataloging (Maija Cravens)
Hello Maija,
Someone forwarded your e-mail to me since I cataloged the very
record you included. There is a Rule Interpretation (RI 21.2C,
paragraph 4 (17th-19th Century U.S. almanacs) that covers the
situation. The note: Title history, was devised to cover all the title
changes of an almanac, because it was judged that it would be too
trying to create successive entries requiring multiple qualifyers for
these title changes, as hundreds of these almanacs have a similar
title.
I hope this will be of help!
Maryvonne Mavroukakis
Rare Serial Librarian,
Library of Congress
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:53:08 -0500
From: Maija Cravens <mscravens@MAIL.SHSW.WISC.EDU>
Subject: "Title history" in Rare Book Cataloging
In our retrospective conversion efforts, we've come across a few serial
records that use a 500 note Title history which lists all the title
variations that the serial (often an almanac) has had in its lifetime. The
variant titles also appear in separate 246 fields. For an example of this
type of cataloging, see OCLC#14764325 which I've copied below. The record
was authenticated by a CONSER library. If this is the proper way to
catalog rare book collection serials, could somebody tell me where to find
the documentation?
1 010 sn88-27801 ?
? 2 040 PBU ?c PBU ?d NYG ?d DLC ?d OCL ?d DLC ?d IUL ?
? 3 012 ?i 9905 ?
? 4 042 lc ?
? 5 043 n-us-ny ?
? 6 050 00 AY256.N5 ?b W38 ?u <Rare Bk Coll : Am Almanac Coll> ?
? 7 092 615.853 ?b W324 ?
? 8 090 ?b ?
? 9 049 WIHA ?
? 10 245 00 Water-cure and health almanac, for ... / ?c compiled
by Joel
Shew. ?
? 11 246 3 Water cure and health almanac, for ... ?
? 12 246 3 Illustrated water-cure almanac and health almanac, for
... ?f
1850 ?
? 13 246 3 American water-cure and health almanac, for ... ?f
1851- ?
? 14 246 3 Illustrated water-cure almanac for ... ?f <1854>-1857
?
? 15 246 3 American water-cure almanac for ... ?f 1858-<1861> ?
? 16 260 New York : ?b W.H. Graham, ?
? 17 300 v. : ?b ill. ; ?c 20 cm. ?
18 310 Annual ?
? 19 500 Printer varies. ?
? 20 500 Description based on: 1847; title from cover. ?
? 21 500 Title history: Water-cure and health almanac, for ...
<1847>-
1949; Illustrated water-cure almanac an health almanac, for ... 1850-
;
American water-cure and health almanac, for ... 1851- ; Illustrated
water-cure almanac for ... <1854>-1857; American water-cure almanac
for ...1858-<1861> ?
? 22 500 American Almanac Collection: 1847, 1849-1850, 1854,
1856-1858,
1860-1861. ?5 DLC ?
? 23 510 4 Drake, M. Almanacs ?c 8493 et al. ?
? 24 500 Imprint varies. ?
? 25 650 0 Almanacs, American ?z New York (State) ?
? 26 700 1 Shew, Joel, ?d 1816-1855. ?
? 27 710 2 American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) ?5
DLC ?
? 28 850 DLC ?a N ?
? 29 936 1861 LIC ?
Thank you for your help,
___________________________________
Maija Cravens
Head of Cataloging
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library
816 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608)264-6522 Fax: (608)264-6520
mscravens@mail.shsw.wisc.edu
