(Posted to both Autocat and RDA-L) The Chicago Manual of Style, the preferred style guide for AACR2 and similarly the draft RDA, has placed a guide to its citation styles on its website at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Given that cataloguing and catalogues are for users, and citations (the RDA term for a definitive reference or name for a resource) are what users se, construct and get their information from, what should we be doing to narrow the gap between standard catalogue records and displays and instances such as the following (from the CMS page): ---------- Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. Primate Conservation Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951. Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/. Also available in print form and as a CD-ROM. ------------ Hal Cain Joint Theological Library Parkville, Victoria, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
