[DCRM-L] RBMS Policy Statements published in Official RDA Toolkit

[Jessie Sherwood]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the RBMS Policy Statements in
the Official RDA Toolkit <https://access.rdatoolkit.org/>. The RBMS Policy
Statements are maintained by the RBMS RDA Editorial Group, a subgroup of
the Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC)
<https://rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/> of the Rare Books
and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL). The statements provide guidance on the description of
rare materials typically found in rare book, manuscript, and special
collections repositories.

The RBMS Policy Statements are based on Descriptive Cataloging of Rare
Materials (DCRMR) <https://bsc.rbms.info/DCRMR/>, an open-source,
integrating resource that will be updated over time. DCRMR is an
RDA-aligned revision of a suite of manuals published as Descriptive
Cataloging of Rare Materials (DCRM) <https://rbms.info/dcrm/>, which cover
various formats of rare materials. The current version of DCRMR includes
instructions for the description of rare books only. As instructions for
additional formats (e.g., rare graphics) are incorporated into DCRMR from
the original DCRM suite, the scope of the RBMS Policy Statements will
expand accordingly. For information on the application of RDA and the DCRM
manuals, consult the BSC’s statement on DCRM and RDA
<https://rbms.info/dcrm/rda/>.

Most of the RBMS Policy Statements are brief, concise statements that
provide guidance on the application of options in the RDA Toolkit. All of
the statements include hyperlinked citations to relevant instructions in
DCRMR for further information. Although the text of the RBMS Policy
Statements is available without a subscription via a landing page in the
RDA Toolkit
<https://access.rdatoolkit.org/PolicyStatement/Index?externalId=en-US_rbms_landing>,
a subscription to the Toolkit is required to view them in context with RDA
instructions.

We sincerely thank all current and past members of the RBMS RDA Editorial
Group, previous DCRM and policy statement editorial groups, and the
Bibliographic Standards Committee, as well as the larger rare materials
cataloging community, for their contributions to writing, editing, and
reviewing the RBMS Policy Statements. We are grateful for your
collegiality, dedication, and good humor.

Best,

RBMS RDA Editorial Group


-- 
Jessie Sherwood
Associate Librarian
The Robbins Collection and Research Center
University of California Berkeley, School of Law
Tel: 510.643.1236
jcsherwood at law.berkeley.edu
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