Kathy, In addition to Kathie Coblentz's comment, please contact the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee if you haven't already done so. The group has wrestled with the definition of "leaf" and "leaf of plates" over the years.
I think (others may disagree) that it is also possible to have an unbound leaf or an extracted leaf. Single-sheet publications with printing on them are described in terms of a sheet in DCRM(B), but they could be referred to as a leaf. Pace Mac Elrod, it is not at all unusual to have early printed volumes (at least into the 16th century) that are foliated rather than paginated. That is, only side of the leaf is numbered even though both sides contain printing. Thank you, Larry -- Laurence S. Creider Head, Archives and Special Collections Dept. University Library New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 Work: 575-646-4756 Fax: 575-646-7477 lcrei...@lib.nmsu.edu On Mon, July 15, 2013 1:55 pm, Kathie Coblentz wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:54:41 +0000, Kathy Glennan <kglen...@umd.edu> wrote: > >>Thanks to the posters on this list for raising the issue about the >> problems with limiting the definition of leaf to text in the RDA Glossary. >>I will work on creating/proposing a revised, broader definition for the >> JSC to consider, with an eye toward including that in the November release of the RDA Toolkit. >>Kathy >>Kathy Glennan >>ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee >>Head, Metadata Creation and Enhancement / Music Cataloger >>University of Maryland >>kglen...@umd.edu<mailto:kglen...@umd.edu> > > Thanks. > > Don't forget the problems with limiting the definition to paper; and with > limiting it to a "single ... sheet," when a leaf is generally part of a larger sheet (see the AACR 2 definition, quoted earlier in this thread, though it's not accurate for all materials in volume form, either). > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Kathie Coblentz, Rare Materials Cataloger > Collections Strategy/Special Formats Processing > The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building > 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, Room 313 > New York, NY 10018 > kathiecoble...@nypl.org > > My opinions, not NYPL's >
