Description and Access
[rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg
[...@biblio.tu-bs.de]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 4:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Straight jacket?
Am 10.12.2010 01:48, schrieb Peter Murray:
My point in listing these examples
] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind [rochk...@jhu.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Straight jacket?
I think RDA actually IS a useful first step.
In our current environment, we (at least in the US) pretty much catalog FOR
MARC. MARC
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[rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind [rochk...@jhu.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Straight jacket?
I think RDA actually IS a useful first step.
In our current
Both AACR2 and MARC21 have been called straight jackets.
We find RDA to be much more of a straight jacket than either.
For example, recently a separate item (offprint or reprint?) was
described as 730 02 $iContained in (work):$aJournal ...
That is a bald faced lie. Talk about forcing square
On 12/9/2010 11:22 AM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
Rules should be made for patrons, not for machines.
The machines exist to serve the patrons too. No patron in a a 2010
library (Or at least 99% of libraries) looks at the records you are
creating _except_ through machine interfaces.
If you
Yes, I agree with you Jonathan. *Both* the rules and the machines are
tools to try to provide services for patrons. Just the means to an end.
I think a lot of the confusion arises because of the very varied
environments where our data are living. It's not always clear where the
problem
Jonathan Rochkind said:
The machines exist to serve the patrons too. No patron in a a 2010
library (Or at least 99% of libraries) looks at the records you are
creating _except_ through machine interfaces.
We find MARC21 coding makes our records quite machine friendly. In
fact, MARC means
Mac wrote:
snip
The relationships among authors and works, manifestations and works,
are for too varied to be expressed in set vocabularies. Creating
them seems like a Medieval exercise in theology.
/snip
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
snip
If catalogers are unwilling to create records that can be
Of J. McRee Elrod
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Straight jacket?
Jonathan Rochkind said:
The machines exist to serve the patrons too. No patron in a a 2010
library (Or at least 99% of libraries) looks at the records you
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