DCRB to DCRM(B) Area 7: Notes

7B2.2: New rule: “Always note the presence of nonroman script in the publication if it has been transcribed only in romanized form in the description”
7B4: If nonroman text has been transcribed in the title proper without parallel romanzation, it is now mandatory to give a romanization of the title proper (in DCRB 7C4 it was optional).
7B6.1: “If a statement of responsibility appears in a source other than on the title page, give it and its source in a note”: DCRM(B) substitutes “title page” for “the prescribed source of information” (i.e. title page, preliminaries or colophon).
7B6.3.1: When author information is taken from a source outside the publication, “include the authority for the attribution whenever possible”: cf DCRB 7C6, “whenever possible and useful”.
7B7.2: “Make other notes relating to the edition being described or to the bibliographic history of the work, if they are considered important.”: The clause “if they are considered important” is new in DCRM(B) (cf DCRB 7C7).
7B7.4: New rule about limitation statements: “If the statement of limitation is accompanied by statements of responsibility or other information relating to the production of the edition, include as much of the additional information in the note as is considered important.”
7B7.5: Change to rule for limited editions with numbered copies. “Give the copy number in a separate local note, if considered important”: the clause “if considered important” is new in DCRM(B). It is no longer an option to give the entire statement of limitation and the copy number as a copy-specific note (cf DCRB 7C7).
7B9.1: New guidance about when to provide signatures: “It is also desirable to provide signatures when a volume has no pagination or foliation”.
7B9.2: Expands list of terms used to describe gatherings signed with unavailable characters (cf DCRB 7C9).
7B9.3: Rule change: Use the words pi and chi to indicate unsigned leaves that fall outside the signature sequence. Do not use the Greek characters p and ?. Cf DCRB 7C9, to use the words pi and chi only if the typographical facilities for p and ? are not available.
7B9.5-6: New instructions to indicate in a note if the signatures of a volume do not match its actual gatherings, and to provide both sets of signatures in a note if a volume is signed using two concurrent sequences.
7B9.7-11: New section on how to deal with nonroman siguatures.
7B10.3: New instruction: “Always note the presence of hand coloring in publications issued as such”.
7B10.4: New instruction, designed for machine-press books: “Describe details of an artist’s book or a publisher-issued binding if considered important.”
7B13 (dissertations): “If the publication lacks a formal thesis statement, a bibliographic history note may be made”. This is less prescriptive than DCRB 7C13, “give a bibliographic history note”.
7B14.1: New rule: “Give references to published descriptions in bibliographies or other authoritative reference sources if these have been used to supply elements of the description.”
7B14.2: It is no longer mandatory to record a bibliographic citation for incunabula, or when the edition catalogued is listed in BAL, Bristol, Evans, STC or Wing (cf DCRB 7C14).
7B16.1: Rule expansion: Adds to the instruction to note the presence of errata leaves and errata slips (=DCRB 7C16): “Note the presence of errata listed in other sources in the publication if considered important”.
7B19.1.4: New rule: “Include in all local notes one or more of the following identifiers, if considered important: a designation of the holding institution (e.g., a library’s name, acronym, or code), a designation of the item’s physical location (e.g., a shelfmark), or an indication of the item’s copy number (if the institution holds more than one copy). Such identifiers are especially recommended if the bibliographic record ist o be contributed to a union catalog or other shared database.”
7B19.2: Provenance. Greatly expanded instructions on recording provenance, which equate with guidance given in the Rare Book Group’s Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Rare Books (http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/rarebooks/bibliographic/index).
7B19.3: Bindings: Greatly expanded instructions on recording bindings, which equate with guidance given in the Rare Book Group’s Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Rare Books (http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/rarebooks/bibliographic/index).
7B19.3.2-3: New rule to note when the number of physical units in which a publication is bound differs from the number in which it was issued, if considered important, and to indicate erors in binding (implied in DCRB by final example of 7C18).