Amanda Xu said:
I agree that it's critical to have accurate and specific place name
info in a record ...
The worst written and worst observed rule in AACR2 is 1.4C. Worst
written, in that it is subjective. A city for which jurisdiction is
considered necessary is variable. A city in Australia
To save cataloger's time for researching the actual name of the larger
jurisdiction ...
The cataloguer must establish the larger jurisdiction to code
008/25-17, which is rarely if ever used to create OPAC display. By
not including that known information in 260$a, the cataloguer is
depriving the
The proposal that I just submitted will not only serve the purpose for data
input suggestion at the time of record creation, but it can also be used for
content validation and database cleanup during the record submission at
client level and database update at server level. Thanks!
Amanda Xu
Dear Mac,
I hope you will forgive the delay in responding, there's a lot of
traffic on the list.
2.8.2 Instructs cataloguers to record the place of publication (which is
a transcribed element 2.8.1.4)
Include both the local place name (city, town, etc.) and the name of
the larger jurisdiction
Quoting Danskin, Alan alan.dans...@bl.uk:
It is not clear what
benefit you perceive is derived from the addition of information about
the larger jurisdiction.
The benefit is to inform the catalogue user where the document was issued.
There are many, many places which may appear in this
Alan Danskin said:
It is not clear what benefit you perceive is derived from the addition of
information about the larger jurisdiction.
It seems to me the distinction between London England and London
Ontario is an important one, and that the distinction is needed for
identification. For
Thank you so much for the wonderful discussion! I just put another star to
this message. I agree that it's critical to have accurate and specific
place name info in a record for various reasons.
As far as I am concerned, that is the value-added library metadata services
that a cataloger (a.k.a.
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Paradis Daniel wrote:
Mac seems to forget that place of publication was not mandatory in
AACR2 either (see rule 1.0D1
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