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Firstly many thanks to the organisers of this e-forum. As someone who has been away from cataloguing for a very long time (and even then with little exposure to rare book cataloguing) I found the two days extremely enjoyable and useful.

Just one final question which struck me in regard to record 3 (forgive any ignorance on my part): what role nowadays do uniform titles (or collective titles) play - whether in rare book or indeed general cataloguing? In the old days with the (possibly exaggerated) importance attached to main entries, they were fairly important, certainly in scholarly cataloguing. What about now? I assume machine manipulation of records makes this much less important? 

From: Karen Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2015, 14:59
Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Cataloguing rare books

Dear all,
 
We’re moving into our final hour in the e-forum and now is your chance to bring up any other queries you have been thinking about over the last two days, or anything that yesterday’s discussions raised.
 
Please do join in!
 
Karen
 
 
 


From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Iris
Sent: 16 April 2015 14:05
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Cataloguing rare books
 
Welcome back everybody!
 
If you have taken part in the cataloguing exercise and have any records you would like to share with us, please, post them to the list.
 
If you have any questions relating to rare books cataloguing in general, please, post them as well.
 
I included a rare books genre heading (http://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm) in my record no. 2 and I was wondering whether other institutions/ cataloguers were using them on a regular basis, too, or not.
 
 
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