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From: Erin Blake <EBlake(a)folger.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:51 PM
Dear Special Collections friends and colleagues,
See below for the Jan. 9 press release from LC and ACRL announcing *Descriptive
Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)* – same text available online at
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2014/14-005.html
New Cataloging Guidelines for Pictures Now Available in Online Publication
The Library of Congress and the Association of College and Research
Libraries have updated the cataloging guidelines for describing pictures,
and they are now available in a free, online book, "Descriptive Cataloging
of Rare Materials (Graphics)."
The guidelines cover still images of all types: photographs, prints,
drawings, born-digital pictures, book illustrations, posters, postcards,
cartoons, comic strips, advertisements, portraits, landscape, architectural
drawings, bookplates and more. Instructions for capturing core metadata
elements—the titles, creators, dates, publishers, and media of pictures—are
provided as well as helpful wording for explanatory notes.
"Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)" or DCRM(G) is
available online as a free PDF at rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmgand as a hypertext
document on "Cataloger’s Desktop," desktop.loc.gov.
DCRM(G) can be used for graphic materials of any age or type of production,
published or unpublished, especially when special treatment is useful
because of fragility, rarity and enduring value or aesthetic,
iconographical and documentary interest.
The book is a direct successor to Elisabeth Betz Parker’s "Graphic
Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections,"
published by the Library of Congress in 1982. Known to many simply as
"Betz" or "The Yellow Book," the first "Graphic Materials" became a classic.
The new guidelines make records easier for a wide range of users to
understand and, for published material, easier for libraries to share. For
convenience, advice about cataloging unpublished groups of materials and
collections is now gathered into a single appendix. In recognition of a
wide audience wanting access to graphic materials, DCRM(G) also makes
increased use of such everyday language as "publisher not identified"
instead of the abbreviation "s.n."
While DCRM(G) is intended for use in a library context, it can also be a
valuable supplement for description in archives, museums, historical
societies, corporations and private collections.
The guidelines were written by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries and the Policy and Standards Division of the Library of
Congress. They were published by the Association of College and Research
Libraries.
DCRM(G) is one of a family of manuals providing specialized cataloging
rules for various formats of materials typically found in rare book,
manuscript and special-collection research centers. The suite is known as
"Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials."
Instructions on using DCRM(G) will be offered through conference workshops.
In addition to many examples in the book itself, a separate document of
annotated and MARC-encoded examples is forthcoming. Questions can also be
submitted at any time to DCRM-L, a users group at
listserver.lib.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/dcrm-l.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is the higher
education association for librarians. Representing more than 11,500
academic and research librarians and interested individuals, ACRL (a
division of the American Library Association) is the only individual
membership organization in North America that develops programs, products
and services to help academic and research librarians learn, innovate and
lead within the academic community. For more information, visitwww.acrl.org.
The Library’s Prints and Photographs Division includes more than 15 million
photographs, drawings and prints from the 15th century to the present day.
International in scope, these visual collections represent a uniquely rich
array of human experience, knowledge, creativity and achievement, touching
on almost every realm of endeavor: science, art, invention, government and
political struggle, and the recording of history. For more information,
visit www.loc.gov/rr/print/.
The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution
and the largest library in the world, holds more than 155 million items in
various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S.
Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill
and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov.
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PR 14-005
01/09/14
ISSN 0731-3527
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Erin C. Blake, Ph.D. | Interim Head of Collection Information Services
and Cataloging; Curator of Art & Special Collections | Folger Shakespeare
Library | 201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20009 |
eblake(a)folger.edu | office tel. +1 202-675-0323 | fax +1 202-675-0328 |
www.folger.edu
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.comhttp://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal
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From: Sandra Alston <sandra.alston(a)utoronto.ca>
Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:36 AM
The Spring 2013 special issue of the *Papers of the Bibliographical Society
of Canada/Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada *(BSC/SbC) on the
theme of “What Is the History of (Electronic) Books?” has been made freely
available online at:
http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/bsc/issue/view/1447.
Taking a cue from Robert Darnton’s seminal 1982 article, the special issue
seeks to more firmly situate the electronic book in the bibliographical
landscape and includes contributions from distinguished and emerging
scholars in the fields of classics, information studies, bibliography,
English literature, and publishing, including G. Thomas Tanselle, James J.
O’Donnell, and Guylaine Beaudry. Normally the latest three years of the
*Papers/Cahiers* are available only in print, but the BSC/SbC has decided
to make this issue available to all given its focus on electronic
publishing and the impact of electronic texts on reading and scholarship.
The special issue was edited by Geoffrey Little.
For more information on the BSC/SbC please visit: http://www.bsc-sbc.ca/.
Ruth Panofsky
Second Vice-President
Bibliographical Society of Canada / *La Société bibliographique** du Canada*
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.comhttp://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal
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From: Goldfinch, John <John.Goldfinch(a)bl.uk>
Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:19 AM
Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages.
Monday, 2 June 2014 in the Conference Centre, British Library.
Call for papers.
We are seeking four or five papers of approx. 30 minutes each,
one at 11.15 a.m. and the others after lunch, with ample time
for discussion after each paper.
Papers dealing with any aspect of printing and book production
in Continental Eastern and Western Europe are warmly invited,
as are papers dealing with other aspects of historical
bibliography, editing, and the history of the book and reading.
Papers giving an account of work in progress or offers to
introduce discussion of bibliographical interest are a long-
standing feature of the seminar.
Please let us know by the end of April if you are willing to give
a paper.
We should be grateful if you would send us the names and
addresses of potential new participants in the seminar,
especially postgraduate students.
Barry Taylor (barry.taylor(a)bl.uk,; tel 020 7412 7576)
Susan Reed (susan.reed(a)bl.uk; tel 020 7412 7572)
European Studies, The British Library, 96 Euston Road,
London, NW1 2DB, UK.
Dear Friends of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection,
I am pleased to announce that one of our library research fellows from 2013, Dr. Theodora Patrona, who spent several weeks conducting research in Sacramento during the summer, has produced a presentation based on her ongoing research. The PowerPoint presentation with audio is entitled "Greek-American Women's Writing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" and can be accessed from the link on the left side of this page: http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos/lrfp.asp.
The Library Research Fellowship Program is made possible by a generous grant from the Elios Society.
Best wishes in the new year,
George I. Paganelis
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George I. Paganelis
Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
University Library
California State University, Sacramento
2000 State University Drive East
Sacramento, CA 95819-6039
Ph: (916) 278-4361 * Fax: (916) 278-5917
paganelis(a)csus.edu<mailto:paganelis@csus.edu>
http://www.library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos
Elsevier, takedown notices, and universities
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Publishing company increases takedown notices against academic institutions
and websites
Posted Dec 20, 2013 4:01 PM CST
By Victor Li
Elsevier—the science and medical segment of publisher Reed Elsevier—has
dramatically increased its copyright enforcement efforts against
universities and academic websites, demanding that they remove thousands of
scholarly works from their websites.
Over the last several weeks, Elsevier has sent takedown notices to Harvard
University, the University of Calgary, the University of California-Irvine
and media network Academia.edu, according to the Washington Post. The Post
reports that Elsevier’s ownership of the copyrights in question is not in
dispute—scholars usually sign away their copyrights as a condition for Reed
Elsevier to publish their work. However, it has been industry practice for
journal publishers to overlook instances where academic institutions post
work from their own scholars.
Those days seem to be over. “In the past, we really got one or two
takedowns a week,” said Academia.edu chief executive officer Richard Price
to the Washington Post. “Only very recently did Elsevier start sending
takedowns in batches of thousands.” Price told the Post his website has
received more than 2,800 takedown notices in recent weeks.
According to the Post, the uptick in takedown notices comes at a time when
academics and publishing companies are re-evaluating the existing model for
publishing scholarly works. Given the growth of online outlets, authors are
no longer exclusively reliant on publishing companies to distribute their
work. Publishers, however, argue that they are more needed than ever, given
their supervision of the extensive peer-review system.
Reed Elsevier, for its part, pointed to the need to preserve the sanctity
of the publication and review process as its main reason for issuing the
takedown notices. “We do issue takedown notices from time to time when the
final version of the published journal articles has been, often
inadvertently, posted,” said Reed Elsevier VP and Head of Global Corporate
Relations Tom Reller, in a post. “One key reason is to ensure that the
final published version of an article is readily discoverable and citable
via the journal itself in order to maximize the usage metrics and credit
for our authors, and to protect the quality and integrity of the scientific
record.”
That doesn’t seem to be Elsevier’s only concern. According to the Post, the
company acknowledged that there was also a “business-focused reason for
takedown notices.” Additionally, the article noted that, in April, the
company purchased Mendeley.com, one of Academia.edu’s competitors in the
research paper management and distribution field.
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.comhttp://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal