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J. McRee Elrod | 1 Mar 01:09
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Relator terms for graphic and rare material

We passed on the Autocat question about relator terms for editors to
our client the Folger Shakespeare Library, for whom we catalogue
graphic material, using 100/600/700 $e.

Dr. Erin Blake passes on this very informative message:

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We display $e in the browse list for 100 and 700, and we WANT to
display it for 600, but our ILS (Voyager) doesn't provide that option
yet. We've submitted an "enhancement request" and keep pestering them
about it. You'd think that if a valid MARC code for public display
*doesn't* display it would be a bug-report rather than an
enhancement-request, but that line of reasoning hasn't worked.

Rare book libraries routinely use relator terms with 1xx/7xx headings
(using "$e depicted" in the 6xx is still unusual, though). See
http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocab
ularies/relators/alphabetical_list.htm for "Relator Terms for Use in
Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging".

Relator terms (and indexing problems) were discussed at the 2007 ALA
Midwinter MARC for Special Collections Discussion Group. Here's an
excerpt from the minutes: 
   "Our second topic centered on the recording and use of provenance
information in catalog records. We discussed the potential for patron
confusion in systems where all headings for an author are indexed
together, regardless of relator terms or codes, making it difficult to
distinguish (for instance) between books written by an author, and books
owned by that author. Yale avoids the problem by tracing provenance in
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J. McRee Elrod | 1 Mar 01:17
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Re: Series question

Timothy Skeers asked:

>I have a volume in the NM Water Resources Research Institute technical
>completion report series, #341 that also says Texas Water Resources
>Institute technical report 307 on the cover.

We would do two separate 4XX/8XX for the two series.  Two are needed
for indexing.  We even do two for subseries, since few ILS index
4XX/8XX $p.  

Items issued as part of two unrelated series, or a series and
subseries, are not that uncommon.  Sometimes it is a matter of dual
funding of research.

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Sherman Clarke | 2 Mar 00:37
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Subject headings: Chronological subdivisions question (was Order of subdivisions)

You might also want to check the Art and Fine Art memo in SCM:SH -- H1250 where this example appears:

Title:   Religious symbolism in the art of 13th century France.
650 #0 $a Art, French $y 13th century.
650 #0 $a Art, High Gothic $z France.
650 #0 $a Christian art and symbolism $z France $y Medieval, 500-1500.

Fine Art (as distinct from decorative arts) subject strings do chronological subdivisions without
"--History" intervening.

Sherman Clarke
New York University Libraries
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Bellinger, Christina | 2 Mar 18:58
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New England Technical Services Librarians Conference Announcement


This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse the duplication.

NETSL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Registration is now open for the New England Technical Services
Librarians' 2008 Spring Conference:

Cohabiting and Colliding: Print and Electronic Resources

Friday, April 4, 2008

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

The increasing presence of digital resources and new modes of access are
driving changes in technical services-changes in standards, in workflow,
organizational structure, and staff allocation. Please join us to
examine some the implications of these changes and some strategies for
adaptation as technical services departments face the management
challenges posed by this ongoing shift.

Visit the conference web site to register:
http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference.htm

Featured speakers for the morning session include

*         Janet Swan Hill, Associate Director for Technical Services,
University of Colorado Libraries
"Entering an Alternate Universe"
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Bob Mead-Donaldson | 3 Mar 14:37

Re: Great library quote

gmq:

" I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don't know, maybe you 
would have simply banned the Internet to keep the libraries open. "    I 
robot, 2004

bob mead-donaldson
florida international university

Crittenden, Helen (Contractor) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> =20
>
> I'm reading a new mystery by Melissa Glazer (A Murderous Glaze).  On
> page 48, she has 2 people talking: "Jenna shook her head. "I wonder if
> most people realize just how dangerous the Internet is in the hands of a
> skilled reference librarian."  "They probably wouldn't sleep at night if
>
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Helen Buhler | 3 Mar 14:46
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Re: Great library quote

On 3 March 2008 at 8:37, Bob Mead-Donaldson <meaddonb@...> wrote:
> gmq:
> 
> " I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don't know, maybe you 
> would have simply banned the Internet to keep the libraries open. "    I 
> robot, 2004
> 
> 
Some years ago a friend of mine did lose her job to a computer.  The
Director of the research institute she worked for wanted a computer
and it had to be paid for somehow, so a very experienced subject
specialist/reference librarian was made redundant.  The machine
couldnt' have had her subject knowledge or her knowledge of their
readers and their needs.  (I'm not sure quite what he had thoaught the
computer could do better than experienced humans, but I do know what
happened to one librarian).

Helen
Helen Buhler,
Classification Coordinator, The Templeman Library,
The University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NU.    
Email: H.M.Buhler@...  Fax: +44 (0)1227 827107 
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy, and tasty with ketchup.

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Bob Mead-Donaldson | 3 Mar 14:51

Re: Great library quote

Hi Helen,  good to be back and on the job again.     You know, the best 
old movie about that issue is The Desk Set, 1957 with Tracy and 
Hepburn.   But it is no laughing matter, really when people's jobs and 
lives are at stake.

bob mead-donaldson
florida international university

Helen Buhler wrote:
> On 3 March 2008 at 8:37, Bob Mead-Donaldson <meaddonb@...> wrote:
>   
>> gmq:
>>
>> " I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don't know, maybe you 
>> would have simply banned the Internet to keep the libraries open. "    I 
>> robot, 2004
>>
>>
>>     
> Some years ago a friend of mine did lose her job to a computer.  The
> Director of the research institute she worked for wanted a computer
>
>   

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Wendee Eyler | 3 Mar 15:55
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Daily Typo - 3/3/08 - Vioin* (for Violin and Violins)

Vioin* (for Violin and Violins)

A sluggish finger causes the omission of the letter "el" in Violin. Violin
must be typed in a steady staccato or you'll hit a sour note. Notice that
all the letters in Violin except the initial "v" are typed with the right
hand (for touch typists, anyway)--and the letters "o" and "l" are typed with
the same exhausted finger. "Vioin*" has a high probability of being in your
own catalog. A recent check in OhioLINK retrieved 23 entries: 18 for "Vioin"
(Violin) and 5 for "Vioins" (Violins).

Wendee Eyler
Head, Cataloging & Bibliographic Control Unit
Cataloging & Metadata Services Department
Science Library / PO Box 5900
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521 
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Ruth Ziegler | 3 Mar 14:45
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Serials/Metadata Librarian

Florida State University Libraries
Serials/Metadata Librarian 
Assistant or Associate Librarian
Position #53192, Job ID # 24919

The Florida State University Libraries seeks an energetic individual to provide access to serials and
digital collections, including database subscriptions.  Works with and reports to the Serials
Coordinator within the Technical Services Division.

RESPONSIBILITIES:  
Provides bibliographic access to serials by providing original and complex copy cataloging using
AACR2r, MARC formats, Library of Congress subject headings and rule interpretations as specified by
local practice for all formats, including digital.  

Provides bibliographic access to digital collections (both acquired and locally produced) through
knowledge and application of current cataloging standards, as well as emerging metadata schemas
(content, controlled vocabulary), and database architecture (data field selection and placement),
within the framework of the ExLibris ALEPH Library Management System. Responsible for
batchloading of serial records into ALEPH.

Participates in the development, documentation, maintenance and evaluation of serials and
metadata cataloging policies and procedures.

Maintains the quality of cataloging by cultivating a high-level working knowledge of current national
standards, practices and trends in bibliographic control as they relate to serials, serial government
documents and especially born-digital entities.  Establishes authoritative forms of names using NACO standards.

Supervises, directs and evaluates 4 FTE staff engaged in serial and analytic cataloging.  

Responsible for coordination of serials section workflow, working closely with the Serials Department.
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Kathie Coblentz | 3 Mar 16:54
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Re: Editorship

In AACR2, the decision to add the designations of function comp., ed., ill.
and tr. is an optional one. See 21.0D: "Optional addition. Designations of
function."

The same rule says, "In specialist or archival cataloguing, when desirable
for identification or file arrangement, add designations from standard lists
appropriate to the material being catalogued."

The LCRI to 21.0D says, 

"LC practice: Do not apply the designations of function specified by AACR2.
Exception: The designation 'ill.' will be added to the headings for
illustrators occurring in added entries in bibliographic records for
resources intended for children.

"Note that LC does apply the part of the rule that provides for using
designations in specialist or archival cataloging from standard lists
appropriate to the material being cataloged."   

Therefore, libraries adhering to the letter of AACR 2 and the LCRI will not
add these designators to headings for most materials.

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Kathie Coblentz, Special Collections Cataloger
The New York Public Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
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