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Re: AJL RAS CatCom agenda items

Nancy Sack
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:12:33 -0700

Even if the form of references in authority records won't be decided for months or years to come, couldn't we discuss the standardization of descriptive fields, if not headings themselves, in bibliographic records? There's lots of room for improvement there too...

--NS

Joan C Biella wrote:
Just one thought about this:  it's a problem with MANY ramifications, some of which we'll discuss in the LC 
Update.  It's because it's so complex that LC is allowing a six-month period for "testing" the 
system, at the end of which some "best practices" will be enshrined in rules and RIs.  An 
appropriate thing for us to talk about in the Cataloging Committee, perhaps, would be a time-table for us to 
divide up the six months, with regular reports to one another on how it's going and what we're starting to 
think the "best practices" for Hebrew headings will be.

Joan