Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-20 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 14:29 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates Thomas quoted: A person known

Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-19 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 14:29 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates Thomas quoted: A person known to have been

Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-18 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Richard Moore quoted on Autocat: As a matter of interest, in its Final Report (August 2011), the PCC Task Group on AACR2 RDA Acceptable Heading Categories recommended that: * For persons known or assumed to be dead: if dates of both birth and death are available, give both dates, separated by

Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-18 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
-Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: January 18, 2012 1:15 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates Richard Moore

Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-18 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Thomas quoted: A person known to have been born 100 or more years before the formulation or re-examination of a heading should be assumed no longer to be living. A person born 50 years before being entered, will in five decades have been born 100 years earlier. I ve been cataloguing since 1953!

Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-18 Thread John Hostage
-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates Thomas quoted: A person known to have been born 100 or more years before the formulation or re-examination of a heading should be assumed no longer to be living. A person born 50 years before being entered, will in five decades have been born

Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-18 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Steven Arakawa posted: Smith, John, approximately 1930-1985 Smith, John, 1949-approximately 1990 Smith, John, approximately 1890-approximately 1970 The simple use of ca. would avoid our having to find out what approximately is in French, German, Chinese, etc., just as hyphens before and after