Re: [RDA-L] Time and effort

[J. McRee Elrod]

Shawne Miksa said:

> In looking back at the context surrounding AACR2 implementation we
>can see that we obviously enjoy a vast technology communications
>advantage and the ability to exchange information almost instantaneo=
>usly. However, funding training and implementation and the amount and
>length of individual time and effort each of us has to put into
>studying and learning a new way of cataloging is, in my opinion,
unchanged. 

Shawna, thank you for those relevant quotes, this wise observation,
and the mention of our wonderful Judith Hopkins.

Having lived through it all, your quotes reminded me that I then was a
strong advocate of AACR2, and ISBD.  Many of the objections we heard
were to the "weird" new punctuation.  Handling multilingual materials,
I loved the "/" and not having to know what "by" was in every language
I encountered, and being able to recognize parts of bibliographic
records in languages and scripts I could not read.

I do believe that my "pro" stance in 1978, and my "con" stance in 2010
does not reflect a change in me, or the fact that I was on an ISBD
working group, but rather a very high qualitative difference between
AACR2 and RDA.

Also, AACR2 stood in the line of evolution from Panizzi.  RDA departs
in a whole different direction.


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