[DCRB-L] General Principles draft, 20021116

[Jane Gillis]

Joe's draft is excellent. From my understanding of FRBR (and I am learning 
more about it all the time) I have a question on the sentence that appears 
on p. 2:

Of these four entities, rules for describing rare materials necessarily 
place particular emphasis on guidance for descriptions of manifestations 
and for descriptions of items.

According to FRBR:

3.1.1. Group 1 Entities: .. "The entities defines as work ... and 
expression ... reflect intellectual or artistic content.  The entities 
defines as manifestation ... and item, ... on the other hand, reflect 
physical form.

The only entities that anyone catalogs are manifestations and items.  You 
can't catalog an expression or work since they are  not physical.  AACR2 
gives us rules for cataloging manifestations.  Besides the item 
itself,  whatever there is between manifestation and item (issue, state?) 
is where rare materials catalogers need more guidance.

It is also possible that this is my misreading of FRBR.

Jane

Jane Gillis | Rare Book Cataloger|  Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University | New Haven CT  06520
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