2011/3/7 Shorten, Jay <jshor...@ou.edu>: > 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?
Off the top of my head, I might use the guidelines on selecting preferred sources of information found at 2.2.2 as a kind of unofficial ranking list for a particular format. I'd prefer more permanent parts of the resource over something disposable (e.g., text block versus dust jacket). Providing a note on the source of the series statement is another thing I'd do, although there's no specific or general rule in RDA on giving this information as far as I know (i.e., no "Details Relating to Series Statements" rule under 2.20.11). -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex Coordinator University of Minnesota Bibliographic & Technical 15 Andersen Library Services (BATS) Unit 222 21st Avenue South Phone: 612-624-0805 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439 <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>
