Descriptive Cataloging Of Rare Materials

* Examples to Accompany Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) is available for free, without a subscription, via Cataloger’s Desktop from the Library of Congress. However, in order to utilize the hyperlinks to the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data and the DCRM(B) rules from within the examples, a subscription to Cataloger’s Desktop is required.

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books): Cataloging Distribution Service (Library of Congress)

DCRM (MSS): Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts) Current status. DCRM (MSS) is available online as a free PDF. PDF formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 in. History and background. In 2004, the Society of American Archivists adopted as its cataloging... Scope. DCRM (MSS) covers individual ...

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic) provides instructions for cataloging rare cartographic materials, that is, cartographic materials of any age or type of production receiving special treatment within a repository.

Source: The information contained in this section of the Cataloger's Reference Shelf is based on Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books), 2007 Edition, 2011 Third printing with corrections, November 2011, prepared by the Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section in collaboration with The Cataloging Policy and Support Office of the Library of Congress, Cataloging …

The new edition will be called Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books), or DCRM(B). Related manuals for other formats under the DCRM umbrella are in process: DCRM(S), for rare serials and DCRM(M) for rare music. Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts (AMREMM) is now available from ACRL.

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials updates. The following updates to Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials are available as free PDF files: DCRM(B) Second printing with corrections (June 2008) Stay Connected with the Library All ways to connect. Find us on. Subscribe & Comment

PREFACE 8 Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) DCRM(B) gives expanded guidance and prescribes a more rigorous and consistent approach to transcription than did DCRB, and incorporates a sharp distinction between information transcribed from the source and information that has been supplied by the cataloger.

DCRM: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials) DCRM: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics) ALA-LC Romanization Tables Transliteration schemes for non-Roman scripts from the Library of Congress. Yale Fraktur Chart. Rare Book Toolkit: Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Book Cataloger. RBMS Controlled Vocabularies ...