Third try.
My new email address got me rejected when I sent this to the list. I subscribed again, no luck. Hopefully the very helpful list manager, Eric, and Paul have fixed the address. Thanks!
Janet Schrader
Bibliographic Services Supervisor
C/W MARS Inc.
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A similar thing happened to me when the record in OCLC attributed the title Travels of a Lady's Maid to Augustine Birrell, oclc#9750462. The note in the record is simply "Conjecturally attributed to Augustine Birrell" but nothing is given to substantiate this.
The copy at the Lenox Library in Lenox, Mass. has Caroline Phelps Stokes' name penciled on the title page. The archival collection of Stokes' papers at Radcliffe College and her listing in Famous American Women attribute this title to her, published pseudonymously after her death. I noted that in the record as substantiating her as the author.
I wasn't sure if I could/should edit the existing OCLC record. I did another OCLC record for this title with this information, oclc#428978286. It's there too for anyone researching these authors and this title.
Janet
Janet Schrader
Bibliographic Services Supervisor
C/W MARS Inc.
67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201
Worcester, MA 01606
508-755-3323 ext. 25
fax: 508-757-7801
jschrader_at_cwmars.org
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Weinheimer Jim
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Anonymous 1845 - attributed to Henry Steel Olcott. Can anyone tell me why?
All I can find from my home is the same record you are looking at, where we get the semi-nonsensical note
"Attributed to Henry Steel Olcott; no attribution by Sabin."
Which doesn't say who attributes authorship to Olcott other than the cataloger. The records I have seen refer to the Gale electronic version (which I do not have access to) but the 040 is:
040: $a TGPSM $c UtOrBLW
The transcribing library $c is Backstage Library Works, but I can't find the original agency.
So, the cataloger did some work (looking in Sabin), but not enough, and then everybody just accepted the record until you came along. Congrats! There may be a hand-written note in the copy that was originally cataloged that says that it is authored by Olcott, but that needs to be stated clearly.
Looks like a case of cataloger error to me. .
Jim Weinheimer
> Can anyone tell me the citation/authority for ascribing Henry Steel Olcott
> (1832-1937) as the author of:
>
> Pulpit sketches : or the dreams of a pew holder. Albany : Printed by Munsell
> and Tanner, 1845.
>
> The printer: Joel Munsell went to jail for 30 days for refusing to say who
> the author was.
>
> Olcott was born in 1832 - he would have been 13 years old when this was
> published.
> This is a sophisticated essay attacking the leading clergy of the day.
> It doesn't seem likely that he was the author & I'd like to verify that
> naming him as the author is accurate or not.
>
> Thank you,
> Tom
Received on Wed Aug 26 2009 - 15:26:44 EDT