Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Music)
DCRM(M) - Draft rules
Containing Guidelines for Cataloging Print and Manuscript Music
Prepared
by the Joint RBMS/MLA
Task
Group for Developing Rules for Rare Music Cataloging:
Jain
Fletcher, UCLA (RBMS), Chair
Nancy Lorimer, Stanford (MLA)
Robert Maxwell, BYU (RBMS)
Karen
Spicher, Yale (MLA)
Bruce
Tabb, U. of Oregon (RBMS)
Charlotte
Wolfe, U. of Michigan (MLA)
The latest version of the DCRM(M) draft guidelines are ready for review!
The RBMS/MLA
Joint Task Group (hereinafter called JTG) has been working on this manual for a
long while and has been using this site to communicate its progress to the two communities for whom these rules are
primarily intended.
If you would like to review the latest version of DCRM(M), please read the working introduction before proceeding to the draft itself, because that will help explain the procedures thus far followed by the JTG, as well as giving a brief description of the areas still in need of enhancement.
The
draft can be accessed directly through the "Table of Contents" link below, but again, please do not
proceed without at least scanning the working introduction.
Documents that were presented at the "public hearing" at ALA Midwinter in Seattle ("Overview of DCRM(M) status"; and "Questions/Topics for Discussion") can be accessed through the links in this paragraph.
Documents (somewhat edited from those handed out at Seattle) that were presented at the "public hearing" at the MLA 2007 Conference in Pittsburgh ("Overview of DCRM(M) status"; and "Questions/Topics for Discussion") can be accessed through the links in this paragraph. Please note that the various examples that were handed out along with these two main documents were only created for the meeting to give a "picture" of the work being done on the rules, since there was no access to the Website at the meeting. All examples are better represented in the text of this site.