On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Bernhard Eversberg <e...@biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote: > Mark Ehlert wrote: >> >> As someone who's training others on RDA, I concur that parts of the >> new code are, if not impenetrable, certainly a tough row to hoe. >> Chapter 17 has been a real bear for me, for instance, though I think I >> finally managed to wrap my head most of it recently. >> > The trouble is that you don't do cataloging just by applying a > code of rules, but in a system that gives you forms to fill and > options to decide and such. That's very much the environment > catalogers live in and are used to. Their language consists of > MARC tags and MARC field names, mostly. This will have to be adapted > to RDA, or the other way - or it's not going to work.
Very true. That is something that I mention in my training as well: some of the difficulties in translating RDA into MARC. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex Coordinator University of Minnesota Bibliographic & Technical 15 Andersen Library Services (BATS) Unit 222 21st Avenue South Phone: 612-624-0805 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439 <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>
