The Development and Application of U.S. Descriptive Standards for Archives, Historical Manuscripts, and Rare Books

Abstract This article gives an overview of the descriptive and technical standards used in the archives, historical manuscripts, and rare books communities in the United States. It briefly examines the conceptual models underlying these standards and then describes how they have been implemented in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University. KEYWORDS: descriptive catalogingResource Description and Access (RDA)MARC 21 formatsarchival materialsmanuscriptsrare booksspecial collections Notes 1. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report, http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf (accessed May 12, 2012); Glenn E. Patton, ed. Functional Requirements for Authority Data—A Conceptual Model (München: K.G. Saur, 2009), http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-series-on-bibliographic-control-34 (accessed May 12, 2012); International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)—A Conceptual Model, http://www.ifla.org/files/classification-and-indexing/functional-requirements-for-subject-authority-data/frsad-final-report.pdf (accessed May 12, 2012). 2. International Council on Archives, “ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description—Second edition,” International Council on Archives, http://www.ica.org/10207/standards/isadg-general-international-standard-archival-description-second-edition.html (accessed May 15, 2012); International Council on Archives, “ISAAR (CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, 2nd Edition,” International Council on Archives, http://www.ica.org/10203/standards/isaar-cpf-international-standard-archival-authority-record-for-corporate-bodies-persons-and-families-2nd-edition.html (accessed May 15, 2012); International Council on Archives, “ISDF: International Standard for Describing Functions,” International Council on Archives, http://www.ica.org/10208/standards/isdf-international-standard-for-describing-functions.html (accessed May 15, 2012). 3. Francoise Leresche, “Libraries and Archives: Sharing Standards to Facilitate Access to Cultural Heritage,” http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/156-Leresche-trans-en.pdf (accessed November 1, 2012): 6. 4. FRBR, 21–22, 29. 5. Lina Bountouri and Manolis Gergatsoulis, “The Semantic Mapping of Archival Metadata to the CIDOC CRM Ontology,” Journal of Archival Organization 9, nos. 3–4 (2011): 174–207. 6. Patrick LeBoeuf, “Modeling Unique and Rare Documents: Using FRBRoo/CIDOC CRM,” Journal of Archival Organization 10, no. 2 (2012): 96–106. 7. This appears to be the approach of the IFLA Working Group on Aggregates, which has thus far determined not to address aggregates such as archival fonds or rare book collections. See Working Group on Aggregates, Final Report of the Working Group on Aggregates, International Federation of Library Associations, http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbrrg/AggregatesFinalReport.pdf (accessed May 15, 2012): 3. 8. Deborah J. Leslie, “New Trends in Cataloging Rare and Special Materials,” Library Trends 52, no. 1 (Summer 2003): 109–111. The development of rare book cataloging rules leading up to the release of DCRM(B) is described in Beth M. Russell's article, “Description and Access in Rare Books Cataloging: A Historical Survey,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 35, nos. 3–4 (2003): 491–523. She traces the development of the first specialized cataloging, Bibliographic Description of Rare Books: Rules Formulated Under AACR2 and ISBD(A) for the Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books and Other Special Printed Materials (Washington, DC: Library of Congress Office, 1981) (BDRB), to the development of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition. Guidelines for rare serials were first included in DCRB, Appendix C. More information on the development and content of DCRM(S) may be found in Juliet McLaren and Jane M. Gillis’ article, “Is This Rule Necessary? A Discussion of New Rules for Rare Serials,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 43, no. 1 (2006): 39–52. 9. Association of College and Research Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Bibliographic Standards Committee, Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) (Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, 2007), 11. 10. Association of College and Research Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Bibliographic Standards Committee, Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials) (Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, 2008), 11. 11. American Library Association; Canadian Library Association; Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain); Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, “Introduction,” http://access.rdatoolkit.org (accessed April 23, 2012). 12. Chris Oliver, Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2010), 1. 13. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, “Bibliographic Standards Committee DCRM-RDA Task Force,” http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/dcrm/rda/dcrm-rda.html (accessed April 23, 2012). 14. Program for Cooperative Cataloging, “PCC RDA BIBCO Standard Record (BSR) Metadata Application Profile,” November 8, 2012 revision, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/scs/documents/PCC-RDA-BSR.pdf (accessed November 1, 2012). 15. Like BDRB, APPM was first released in 1983 in reaction to the publication of AACR2. As in the rare books community, archivists felt that the provisions of chapter 4 of AACR2 were insufficient, and determined to prepare their own specialized manual. See Steven L. Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries, 2nd edition (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1989), v; and Steven L. Hensen, “Squaring the Circle: The Reformation of Archival Description in AACR2,” Library Trends 36 (Winter 1988): 539–552. 16. Society of American Archives, “Describing Archives: A Content Standard,” Society of American Archivists, http://www.archivists.org/governance/standards/dacs.asp (accessed April 23, 2012). The full standard is available online at http://files.archivists.org/pubs/DACS-2007.pdf (accessed January 3, 2013). 17. The conceptual differences between rare book and archival cataloging have been addressed recently in two articles in RBM, the journal of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association: Margaret F. Nichols, “The Cataloger and the Archivist Should be Friends: or, Herding vs. Milking Special Collections,” RBM 12, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 25–33; and Katherine M. Wisser, “Archival Cataloging and the Archival Sensibility,” RBM 12, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 34–40. 18. 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