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Suggestions sought for Standard Citation Forms…

The ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Bibliographic Standards Committee, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, is soliciting additions and corrections for a second edition of Standard Citation Forms for Rare Book Cataloging (first edition prepared by Peter VanWingen and Stephen Paul Davis, and published by the Library of Congress in 1982). A subject index will be included in the new edition, as well as additional cross-references and guidelines for citing journal articles and electronic databases. Standard Citations includes bibliographies that are useful in verifying, identifying, or describing items held in rare book or special collections and that have been or are likely to be cited in machine-readable catalog records. Bibliographies of or about individuals, printers, publishers, and jurisdictions below the national level are generally excluded.

The editors would be pleased to receive corrections and updates to existing citations. Suggestions for new citations should be accompanied by (1) a bibliographic record for the work or a photocopy of the title page, or both, and (2) a bibliographic record in which the work is cited. Specialized lists of bibliographies which have been compiled for local use are also welcome.

To ensure that your suggestions are considered for inclusion in the second edition of Standard Citations, please submit them by January 31,1992, to Peter VanWingen or Belinda Urquiza, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.