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Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books), 2007 Edition

Cataloging rules for rare books, that is, printed textual monographs receiving special treatment within a repository. Thoroughly revised and expanded from its predecessor (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books, 2nd edition, 1991), now includes 19th- and 20th-century books. New introductory sections on objectives and principles and precataloging decisions, to help with local decisions about the level of detail to provide; an appendix of scanned images of early letters and symbols accompanied by their correct transcriptions; and new appendixes on collection-level cataloging, core-level cataloging, variations requiring the creation of a new bibliographic record, and individual issues of serials. 239 pp. ISBN 0-8444-1162-0

D. F. McKenzie
Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
Cambridge University Press, 1999


In the Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts D.F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determine their meanings. He demonstrates that as works are reproduced and reread, they take on different forms and meanings. This is true of all forms of recorded information, McKenzie claims, including sound, graphics, films, landscape and new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.

D.F. McKenzie was Emeritus Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford