Gender identity in authority records

2007-12-31 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Forwarded with permission from another list. Forwarded message Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:43:21 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... The draft states Gender is the gender with which a person identifies. ... A big problem with the gender with which a person identifies

Re: Alternate titles

2007-12-31 Thread Ed Jones
My sense from the MARBI discussion paper is that minimal changes to MARC21 are contemplated. The discussion of LDR/18 implies that MARC21 records coded as being RDA/ISBD will still need to have ISBD punctuation (or as I like to think of them, symbolic labels) input manually, which would be a

Automatic punctuation (was: Alternate titles)

2007-12-31 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Ed Jones said: The discussion of LDR/18 implies that MARC21 records coded as being RDA/ISBD will still need to have ISBD punctuation ,,, I certainly hope there is a new and different code in LDR/18 for RDA based records. Depending to the Anglo national libraries' implementation standards,