Mac,
It is incorrect to refer to the "present draft" of RDA. It's not a draft,
it's a published work. Granted changes and refinements will be made, but
it is as much a final work as the first edition of AACR2 was, which one
would not also refer to as a draft.
Adam
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
Adam Schiff said:
There is only one version of RDA that counts now, and that is the one that
is available through the RDA Toolkit ...
Mark says that provision for "common usage" unit names has not
changed. Is he mistaken?
The present draft of RDA will, I hope, not be the final word. I
certainly hope some good ideas abandoned from earlier drafts of RDA
will not be forgotten, and at some point restored, e.g., B.C.E./C.E.,
and alternate title removed from title proper. I also hope some
practices, long a part of good cataloguing practice, will also be
restored, e.g., a relationship between transcribed authors and
entries, justification of added entries in description, a set minimum
number of authors to be transcribed and traced if present, and (at
least as an option for international data bases) adherence to ISBD
including inclusions.
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