Re: [RDA-L] Regarding copyright dates for multivolume publications

2012-09-12 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
aspects (e.g., text, sound, graphics), record only the latest copyright date. The way I read that, a multivolume work would not be covered as it is entirely textual. Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original

Re: [RDA-L] Regarding copyright dates for multivolume publications

2012-09-12 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Benjamin A Abrahamse Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:39 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Regarding copyright dates for multivolume publications Thanks for the response

[RDA-L] illustrations, some of which are colored

2012-08-30 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
to color illustrations. Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137

Re: [RDA-L] illustrations, some of which are colored

2012-08-30 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
Thanks, Bob. I was worried maybe there was a new prohibition on using parens in the physical description or something. Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource

Re: [RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Undifferentiated personal names: call for community discussion

2012-04-02 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
, it can act as a parking lot for entities that are in need of further qualification. Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L

Re: [RDA-L] Undifferentiated personal names

2012-04-02 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
$a author $t History of South Dakota etc. Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca

[RDA-L] End of the T.P.?

2012-03-27 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
at the correct record for the piece. Anyone have any insights into why RDA does this? Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137

Re: [RDA-L] Revolution in our Minds: Seeing the World Anew

2012-02-22 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
being ignored in order to get them to go sleep!) b Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac

Re: [RDA-L] Showing birth and death dates

2012-01-27 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
) will able to tune its display according to local preference. But, we aren't there yet, and seems uncertain to me when we'll arrive. And when we do there will be a lot of unconverted data to deal with so it seems like it's still worth discussing the literals, as it were. Benjamin Abrahamse

Re: [RDA-L] Showing birth and death dates

2012-01-19 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
?redirectedFrom=circa#eid – subs. req.): Around, round about, about. The prep. is often used in English with dates, as circa 1400 (c1400). --Ben Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access

Re: [RDA-L] Tactile three-dimensional form

2011-11-14 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
Well, they come in several flavors, so you might have to do more than one. (Does RDA support flavors?) Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access

Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement

2011-11-09 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
be wrong-I'm far from an RDA expert.) --b Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Billie Hackney

Re: [RDA-L] Radical proposal for RDA inclusions

2011-10-27 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
.] versus [place of publication not identified, etc. etc. But it may have to wait until we've managed to transition away from MARC as our encoding standard. Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original

[RDA-L] Rule of three (was RE: [RDA-L] Plans for Existing Bib Records?)

2011-05-20 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
, and identifying best practices for specific types of libraries and collections strikes me as more flexible and realistic. Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access

Re: [RDA-L] Plans for Existing Bib Records?

2011-05-19 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
with, but it is what it is. That said, I am certainly interested in whatever automated conversion options might be available. --Ben From: J. McRee Elrod [m...@slc.bc.ca] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:01 PM To: Benjamin A Abrahamse Cc: RDA-L@listserv.lac

Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records

2011-05-16 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
that should be capitalized (proper nouns, German nouns, etc.) and things that shouldn't. If there is a program that does this… then I'd like to hear about it as well. .02, b Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137

Re: [RDA-L] latin, the dead language

2011-04-29 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
I was at a presentation on RDA yesterday where someone mentioned that they would like to be able to indicate that what was on the t.p. was not the correct form but that there wasn't an option to do so in RDA. So, absit omen... I guess [sic] is out, as well ? Benjamin Abrahamse

Re: [RDA-L] latin, the dead language

2011-04-29 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
around. --Ben Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Brenndorfer, Thomas

Re: [RDA-L] Question about RDA relationships (App. J)

2010-02-18 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
for thought, B Benjamin Abrahamse Head, Serials Cataloging Section Cataloging and Metadata Services MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Thursday

Re: [RDA-L] When is a new serial record best for patrons?

2010-01-13 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
as major changes -- at least in national level records -- is that the cataloging was done before the introduction of major v. minor change rules in 2002. (And the fact that we generally do not go back and recatalog items when the rules change.) B Benjamin Abrahamse Head, Serials Cataloging

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