Dear Judy,
Since retiring in 2003 I have not been closely following discussions of
RDA. It seems to me that in some cases first statement of responsibility will
be difficult or impossible to ascertain. I do not think it is far-fetched it
imagine: 1. A bilingual text with one right-to-left
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Concerning romanization and transliteration:
1. Romanization is narrower in terms of the target script into which
one converts--it applies to changes to roman script only.
2. Transliteration is narrower in terms of the source script from which
one
Monday, October 27, 2008
Dear Mac,
I totally applaud your last sentence. A catalog is of a collection or
its not a catalog. Well there are union catalog but aside from thelm.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad
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Tuesday, July 2, 2008
Dear Martha,
I think I congratulated you when I first learned of your M.Mann
award. I'll just add I think that one of the benefits is that it raises the
credibility ov everything you say or write in the profession. Keep it up!
Regards,
Jim
Saturday, February 9, 2008
If those working on RDA seek another topic for their energym I suggest that
standardizing filing rules for OPACs would be appropriate. It would simplify
matters for both users (one set of fining rules to learn) and vendors (one
set of rules to implement).
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Dear Mac,
I'm surprised that as living in the west you didn't mention Portland
Oregon too.
On a little more serious note, I'm overwhelmed by the volume of the
new draft sections of RDA. It's more pages than I'd want to copy. In your
reading did you
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Dear Mac,
I've been away for a week. I will read the Feliciter and Amer.Libs. RDA
articles. I liked your comment. I syspect Am.Libs. won't print the Gorman
and Yee articles as they might erode sales of RDA of which ALA is one
publisher. (In other words point
Saturday, Ocotber 13, 2007
In order to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater one must first
agree on what are the essentials that should be retained and what are
outdated matters that should be discarded. I sense that the agreement is
lacking.
While new media are all about us the
Thursday, September 4, 2005
Wide electronic distribution of the list/index of free floating LCSH
subdivisions with instructions would also be helpful IMHO. But subject
access--LCSH,
LCC, Dewey decimal, Bliss, Cutter, UDC, etc.--though worthy topics may all
be beyond the current scope of the
Friday, June 29, 2007
At present AACRE defines:
1. Parallel title. The title proper in another language and/or script. and
2. Alternative title. The second part of a title proper that consists of
two parts, each part of which is a title; the parts are joined by or or its
equivalent in
Thursday, June 7, 2007
According to C.A.Cutter (4th ed, 1904, p.12) the first two objects of a
catalog are:
1. To enable a person to find a book of which either (A) the author, (B) the
title [or] (C) the subject is known.
2. To show what the library has (D) by a given author, (E) on a given
Monday, May 14, 2007
I think the reason for using a controlled vocabulary was not for sharing
data among libraries but to bring together (aka collocate) items with of an
author who uses a variety of names or forms of a name (Twain vs. Clemons), or
on a subject whose name varies (death penalty
Thursday, April 5, 2007
It may be unrealistic to expect the archival and electronic resources to
communities adopt all the details of AACR rules--they may not need them. It may
also be unrealistic to expect libraries to dilute their rules for these
communities when libraries still need them.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Dear Mac,
Bravo! I agree with most of what you say, but not the 600/650 example
If an item is a biography a more general 650 (Arichitects--Great
Britain--Biography for Christopher Wren) is not what should be first.
Concerning vocabulary, is it possible that
Mac,
As you said, It's hard to say nicely that the emperor is naked.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Wednesdy, February 21, 2007
I think several years ago the late Professor Hans Wellisch of Univ. of
MD library school wrote an article proposing that we do away with inverting
personal names entirely. I'm not sure in what journal.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Dear Diane,
Better thee than me. A long time ago at Rutgers library school Ralph
Shaw supposedly said, Information science is librarianship by amateurs. In
the same vein I suspect metadata is cataloging by amateurs and FRBR is a fad
borrowed from database
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
On this list I have twice asked what, if anything, RDA will do about
vernacular (i.e., nonroman) access points which catalogers using RLIN or OCLC
have assigned for several years. I have had no answer. I conclude this has not
been decided and may appear in the
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
I have read draft chapters 6 and 7. In my opinion, a major problem with RDA
is the lack of any mention of headings in other scripts, also known as
vernacular access points. Will they be mentioned in a subsequent chapter? I'll
say
no more now about their desirability
Monday, July 17, 2006
If chapter 13 said to align the bibliographic naming of works with
established ways in which users refer to works as Mr. Eversberg suggests,
would this
include at least allowing the giving of titles of works of nonroman origin
in their original script? 'Tis a consumation
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Dear Mac,
I completely agree with you about the alternative title and have long
thought so. My recollection is that considering it part of the title proper
was due to the desires of French librarians and dates back to near the start of
ISBD's--maybe when the 'I'
Thursday, July 13, 2006
A recent contributor to this list said he or she had not seen a card
catalog that distinguished in filing between main and added entries for a
person. The old LC filing rules (pre-John Rather rules) did make this
distinction.
I do not know if the frozen LC card
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
I have read the draft versions of chapters 6 and 7 but did not see any
mention of a topic of interest to me: Will RDA provide for access points in the
original script to resources issued in nonroman scripts? Will something be in
part 2?
Background. For a few
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