Folks:
I'd like to direct your attention to a recent post of Karen Coyle's, on her new blog: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2006/09/description-and-access.html One point that echoes some of my own recent rants: "RDA claims that its purpose in the area of description "should enable the user to: a) identify the resource described...." Yet today we are in dire need of machine-to-machine identification, which RDA does not address. Increasingly our catalogs are interacting with other sources of discovery, such as web sites, search engines, and courseware. "Identification" that must be interpreted by a human being is going to be less and less useful as we go forward into an increasingly digital and networked information environment." Amen, sister. But really, go read the whole thing. Twice. Regards, Diane -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Diane I. Hillmann Research Librarian Cornell University Library Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (607) 387-9207 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
