John Feather,
LA Rare Books Group,
Department of Information and Library Studies,
Loughborough University,
Loughborough,
Leicestershire LE11 3TU.
Beginning in 1992, new rare book fields for both general and copy-specific information have been added to UKMARC. These fields are increasingly being taken up for use by libraries, but there is little or no documentation available to help with their application and so these Guidelines have been produced to offer some recommendations about desirable standard practice. Particular attention has been paid to the recording and indexing of provenance and binding information: 8 plates with illustrations of copy-specific features are provided to use alongside examples of MARC fields recording and indexing those features.
More generally the Guidelines are designed to assist libraries in drawing up local policies for the cataloguing of rare books. In the first instance, therefore, the aim has been to define a minimum level of detail which will meet the core needs of many researchers. A higher level has also been defined, incorporating recommended elements of information which are most likely to be of interest to catalogue users.
The compilation of the Guidelines was first discussed at an open meeting held by the Rare Books Group in November 1995. A draft text was prepared and circulated as a consultative document around 25 selected libraries known to be active in rare book cataloguing. The version now published takes account of the comments received, and is therefore the product of a collaborative exercise: it is intended to be, as far as possible, by as well as for the rare books community. In some areas of rare book cataloguing there are not, as yet, any widely accepted practices, and the Guidelines are open to revision and augmentation as practice develops.
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Please send me ____ copy(ies) of Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Rare Books at a cost (which includes postage & packing) of 6.00 pounds sterling or 10.00 US dollars per copy.
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John Feather, LA Rare Books Group, Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU.
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