There wasn’t
anything that jumped out at me, apart from the fact that a
couple of you transcripted the commas, while others left it
out. I haven’t had an opportunity to do a full record,
unfortunately, but I did leave them in.
This might be a
silly question, but I wondered whether there might be any
circumstances under which you’d include the dedicatee (James
Shaen) as a 700 field. Given interest in provenance &
associaions, I wasn’t sure whether this might be relevant in
some cases. It feels perhaps a bit excessive, but I can
imagine there might be times when readers might be
interested in information like that.
Best,
Jennifer
I
think the records look pretty similar.
Those
of you who don’t have a lot of rare books cataloguing
experience, is there anything in the records that looks
unusual to you? Or do you have any other questions or
comments?
When
I created my record I thought for this exercise I would
include citations/references in the 510 in the format of the
latest edition of the
Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging (available
free online:
http://rbms.info/scf/
)
to see what it was like even though we actually still
follow the previous version within the ESTC. What do you
think? It’s probably clearer for users not necessarily
familiar with these reference works as such but I must say
it does take longer to input.
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