[DCRB-L] General principles

[Deborah J. Leslie]

The purpose and scope of the general principles document will be to take the principles of  cataloging and expound them explicitly in regard to rare materials. The FRBR should prove an excellent anchor for this activity. The particular points Brian mentions below will not be delineated in the principles document but will be in the bailiwick of group 5, "specific problems and lacunae." The specific problems in t.p. transcription that Brian mentions will most definitely be on the list of problems to be discussed. I am largely in agreement with Brian, and look forward to further discussion about the application of FRBR to DCRM transcription. 

The first draft of the principles will be distributed shortly to conferees, and then after the author has time to make revisions based on their comments, to the general members of this list in mid-December. May I reiterate my advice to read FRBR, the IFLA document on Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records and think about how rare book cataloging are or can be based upon these requirements? I recommend printing out and reading the Adobe Acrobat version at http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf. Or if you like reading long documents in HTML, at http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm

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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. 
Head of Cataloging
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol St., S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
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202.675-0328 (f)
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