I tend to include everything because omitting it doesn’t save that much time anyway and I think it helps identifying the person (also helps differentiating it from somebody with the same name). It might also be of interest to researchers but as you say it is optional, so it is up to the cataloguer.

 

 

 

I have got a question regarding qualifications in statements of responsibility. I left "E Reg. Soc. Philomath." out of my statement of responsibility, but I noticed that the other cataloguers did not. In leaving it out, I applied DCRM(B) 1E8: "Qualifications such as initials indicating membership in societies, academic degrees, and statements of positions held may be omitted from the statement of responsibility". The wording appears to indicate that this rule is optional though - would you usually include qualifications in the statement of responsibility in your records?

Erika

I did find it strange cataloguing from a digital image as I felt it made it harder to examine every page.  Of course we were not able to examine it as a physical object, look at the binding etc.

 

The only thing I have noticed really so far in the records that have been shared is to do with the authorities – and this is one of the discussions we had yesterday – about whether to use the RDA format of authorities (fl. vs active ; c. vs approximately). 

Although we haven’t fully adopted RDA yet at Cardiff, we did take the upload of RDA authority files to update our catalogue, and when cataloguing rare books now will use the new standard LC authorities.  If there wasn’t an authority in LC we would then construct one the same way.

 

I also notice Iris, that in your 510 fields you have written out the name of the source in full [English short title catalogue vs ESTC]

I found this interesting – it is probably more useful for users of the catalogue than the abbreviations that we tend to us.

 

Karen

 

 

 

 

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I will start off the discussion but, please, feel free to keep on submitting your records.

 

The ones of you who catalogued the item, did you encounter any difficulties? I appreciate that it is not the easiest thing to catalogue from a digital image.

 

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