Saturday, October 7, 2006
Dear Diane,
Better thee than me. A long time ago at Rutgers library school Ralph
Shaw supposedly said, "Information science is librarianship by amateurs". In
the same vein I suspect metadata is cataloging by amateurs and FRBR is a fad
borrowed from database designers without enough analysis of whether it is
relevant to cataloging. If this offends, sorry.
I think JSC will meet, is meeting or just met at LC. If you go and they
present drafts of chapters on authority control I'd be interested in what, if
anything, they say about access via nonroman script names of authors to
nonroman works. I suppose eventually they will become avaialable on the net but
I'm impatient.
Do you follow the doings of the ALCTS Task Force on Non-English Access?
I'll send you some info on it in case you' don't.
An article of mine should appear shortly in Cataloging & classification
quarterly, its title: Romanizaton is not enough. It may already be available
electronically to subscribers but I'm not one.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
)
