Next year, Brazil will be facing it's 500th anniversary (from the discovery
by the portuguese) and we are trying to get involved with all the historic
movement that it will lead.
I'm renewing the rare book section of the Sao Paulo Public Library, and a
question arised.
According to the DCRB, The Library of Congress applies the rare book rules
consistently to books published before 1801, rather than rules 2.12-2.18 of
AACR2.
What I want to know is if it's a common procedure in all or almost all of
the rare book libraries, for books of all countries, and if you keep this
books in separate shelves, organized by year of publication or something
like that.
I want to separate the nine european incunabula and some 500 books from the
16th-18th centuries that we have (and all the brazilian imprint from
1808-1900), not mixing them with the new books.
Is it OK? And how about the periodicals, as we have a few titles from the
17th-18th centuries, like the Mercure de France, 1613-1637?
Thank you for your comments.
Rizio Bruno Sant'Ana
Biblioteca Mario de Andrade
Rua da Consolação, 94
01302-000 - São Paulo - SP
rbruno@internetcom.com.br