Hal Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Subsequently, the publisher of the book issues a reprint with a
>corrected title page, or maybe issues a corrected title page with
>instructions to paste it over the original (I have actually received
>such pages); or the issuing agency of the electronic document silently
>corrects it.
A reprint with correction(s) in our shop gets a new record. A
supplied corrected page in our shop gets a "laid in" or "mounted in"
note. Many electronic resources are integrating ones, so the
corrected title would go in 245, and the prior title would go in 247.
> This said, it is of course necessary to provide an access point even
>for the correct spelling, but that is an *access* point
If the correct spelling is substituted in 245, then there would need
to be a 246 with the spelling as on the item. I fail to see what has
been achieved by giving up accurate transcription. On the other hand,
transcribing titles in two languages with a shared word as found on
the item reduces the 246s from two to one.
>I also have some hesitations about discarding the "[sic]" after the
>typo. It is an efficient way of telling the user that this is not a
>cataloguer's typo
Total agreement here. We would have many records returned for
"correction".
>On the other hand, interpolation of "[sic]" into the text disturbs
>the transcription.
When I bend the rules to make less than prime OPAC software function,
I'm told by cataloguing purists the OPACs should be upgraded. Most
OPACs we support do manage to skip bracketed material in indexing. I
am not aware of any "disturbance" to searching.
>I would prefer that something like "[sic, as printed]" be added to
>the end of the title data
Perhaps in a 245$i added for this purpose? I could see this as a
compromise to prevent that information being lost in a note. But is
"printed" the correct work? Perhaps "as transcribed"? (This would
also add another language neutrality loss.)
>... in fact users receive citations also in speech: conversation,
>academic lectures, conference presentations, radio programmes, and so
>on.
Which is why one needs 246s for numbers spelled out and vice versa,
words correctly spelled, titles not on the item but used to cite them
in news reports, e.g., "White paper on taxation", and titles used to
refer to them, e.g., "Moonlight sonata" (unless covered by a cross
reference). Those should be in our own catalogues and any
[inter]national level record.
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