I know that the fact that I have included publisher information at three
levels in the rules and the model has caused some confusion, so I wanted to
discuss it a bit. I thought it might be useful to some catalog users to
have the following information readily available:
1. The first publisher to ever publish this work.
2. The first publisher to ever publish this expression.
...in addition to the information that we would collect routinely at the
manifestation level:
3. The publisher of each particular manifestation.
This raises a few questions. 1) Would this be useful to a significant
number of users? 2) Would this have to be collected by catalogers, or could
it be generated automatically by computers? I suppose the concomitant
questions would be: 1) Would our hypothetical virtual catalog usually have
all editions ever published of a particular work? 2) If not, would the
information be available to catalogers in a significant number of cases?
I'd be interested in your thoughts...
Martha
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Martha M. Yee
Cataloging Supervisor
UCLA Film & Television Archive
1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
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323-462-4921 x27
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myee_at_ucla.edu (Email at work)
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have your dollar. We are not better off. You have an idea. I have an idea.
We swap. Now you have two ideas and I have two ideas. Both are richer. When
you gave, you have. What I got, you did not lose. That’s cooperation"—Jimmy
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