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Hi,
    I just tried to click onto Ana Cristan's email address for a reply
to her, and got a 404 note, so my apologies if I've misdirected this
message.
    I read with great interest the summary of the BIBCO-at-large
meeting, particularly those remarks by the speaker from the Eastman
School of Music, asking about coding as "pcc" materials in which the
access points were conformable, but the description was non-standard.
    I had just approached our BIBCO trainer with a similar
question--whether I could code as pcc core those records for
videorecordings where the access points were authorized but the
descriptive elements (particularly the 5XX notes) were out of strict
AACR2 order.  He pointed me to the remarks mentioned above-- and their
conclusion-- and reminded me that all elements of description and
analysis in the  entire record have to be in apple-pie order.
    Original cataloging I can do as prescribed.  There's a lot of copy
for these materials nowadays, and that's where the problem lies.  I used
to spend a great deal of time re-arranging notes I found on copy
cataloging, which with our system requires repeated cutting and
pasting.  To save time and get the material available sooner, I've
schooled myself not to do that any longer, but I do try to make sure
that the required notes are on the record somewhere. It would be an
additional great savings of time if we could have some kind of code or
marking to indicate at least that the 7XX's were valid, as they are
multitudinous on records for videorecordings-- I'd *love* not to have to
keep checking, especially those names I vaguely recognize from other
videos I processed not long ago.
                Thank you and best regards,
                    Jean E. Craig
                    University of Pennsylvania
                    Van Pelt Library/IPC:  Original cataloging