Karen Coyle said:
>The library cataloging rules (of any stripe) are instructions on how to >make decisions about a group of data elements (title, author, series, >etc.). In AACR and RDA (currently), those data elements are not defined >separately from the rules themselves ... The ISBDs do this quite nicely, by defining the data elements which decades, if not centuries, of experience have shown to be basic to bibliographic identity (with "bibliographic" understood to include all genres of library material). Granted there are elements outside the ISBD (class numbers, subject headings, main and added entries.) >The folks working on RDA have produced a >data element list >(http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/docs/5rda-elementanalysis.pdf) Which by making some ISBD elements optional, e.g., place of putlication, would not satisfy the stated needs of our clients. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
