February 2015 (following a presentation at ALA Midwinter on cataloging screenplays--see ALA Midwinter 2015 notes listed under "Recent activity" on this wiki): We might consider adding more guidance on describing screenplays. If considered appropriate, for instance, we could add a sentence to Appendix F about making an additional access point for the movie that corresponds to the screenplay, on the order of 730 0_ To have and have not (Motion picture). On the other hand, since we're focusing mainly on description, we could leave out the mention of access points and just enumerate elements to be included in the description of a screenplay, if different from those for other types of literary manuscripts. (MN)
December 2012 Meeting
Since we removed some text from Intro during the rewrite, we also deleted footnotes we no longer had a use for. However, they are worth keeping and referring to elsewhere, e.g. bibliography or appendixes:
RBMS Thesauri: Binding Terms; Genre Terms; Paper Terms; Printing and Publishing Evidence; Provenance Evidence; and Type Evidence.
Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450-2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
"If an institution is a BIBCO participant contributing core-level records as part of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), all headings must be established in the LC/NACO and LC/SACO Authority Files."
October 2011 Meeting
June 2010 Meeting
Using square brackets to expand contractions in formal titles: should this go in Area 0 or in 1C?
Develop "Material Types" Appendix
Pre-June 2010
Enter any unresolved issue under its corresponding area. "Other Unresolved Issues" can be used for cross-area issues or anything that does not fit neatly under the other headings.
Introduction
0. General Rules
1. Title and Statement of Responsibility Area
1. Should we use a GMD (general material designation) for a manuscript? No--material type in title area addresses this
2. What information should be included in a supplied title? Covered
3. Where should we record that the manuscript is in the author's hand? What terminology should we use?--autograph
4. How should we treat supplied titles for:
i. poems
ii. legal documents
iii. fragments?
5. Regarding what is now 1D: Statements of Responsibility; and 1G: Multiple works in a single item.
1D: Should we pair "Statement of Responsibility" with "Formal title" and pair "Creators" with "Supplied titles" OR at least put "Creators" before "Statement of Responsibility" in the Contents list? (AEB)
1G: Should we move "Multiple works in a single item" to Appendix B OR have it be part of "Supplied title" and
"Formal title" (AEB)
5. Is the place of signing important for supplied title for legal documents?
6. Should the petitioner's name be included in the supplied title for a petition as well as the name of the person who is being peitioned?
7. Should the name of the testator be included in the supplied title for a will?
2. Edition Area
4. Date Area
5. Physical Description Area
1. Should we follow AMREMM in using a series of notes on particular aspects of the item (e.g. decoration, layout, etc.) in lieu of detailed description in the PD area? - No, we will not use labeled notes. This is RESOLVED by covering all of these areas in notes
2. Re 5D: Size and Format. Under consideration is making it mandatory to record height and width for a full-level record. Minimum-level records will not require measurement. In core-level record only height would be required. Issue: archivists who don't have the practice of measuring at all may not like the fact that their records will not be considered "full level" according to this rule, because there are different standards for "full level" in different communities. Should this be a bifurcation in the rules?
7. Note Area
Discussion on "scope" note versus "with" note.
Language note: require or not? Need bifurcation here for archival vs. bibliographic?
Appendix A. MARC 21 Descriptive Conventions Code
Appendix B. Collection-Level Records
Appendix C. Core-Level Records
1. Do we want to lay out specs for a core-level manuscript record? It might be useful, since the BIBCO Standard Record doesn't apply to mss. (i.e., requirements for a core-level manuscript catalog record are not already covered elsewhere)--MN
Appendix D. Minimal-Level Records
Appendix E. Variations Requiring a New Record
This doesn't seem applicable to manuscripts, where the default will be that a new record is required, since each manuscript is unique (MN)
Appendix F. Title Access Points
Appendix G. Early Letter Forms and Symbols
Appendix H. Individual and Special Issues of Serials
Glossary
Other Unresolved Issues