OCLC #646122824 Hungarian Americans in the current of history has as a 490 1_ East European monographs ; ‡v DCCLXVI .
I presume this is done because of RDA rule 1.8.2, and the alternative chosen by LC which indicates we record the form of the numeral that appears on the piece, whether Arabic or Roman, rather than the basic rule which says to record the numeral in the form preferred by the cataloguing agency or the other alternative which says to restate the number in Arabic. If the item also had a series statement in the book that used “766”, which form would we transcribe in the 490? Jay Shorten Cataloger, Monographs and Electronic Resources Associate Professor of Bibliography Catalog Department University Libraries University of Oklahoma jshor...@ou.edu
