Mike Tribby wrote:
On the other hand perhaps we should be thankful that the mask is now off. Karen Coyle has honestly admitted that, at least in her view, not all libraries need to have access to RDA: [From Karen Coyle in regard to pricing and availability of RDA]: "I am also of the opinion that a new cataloging code would sell fewer copies than AACR and AACR2. This is just my gut feeling, but I think that the reliance on copy cataloging and the need to streamline is such that fewer librarians need to have a copy of the rules at their desks."
Mike, I think you mis-read my post. I didn't say that fewer "libraries" would need a copy of the rules, I said I think that fewer "librarians" will. (See above.) Cataloging departments are shrinking, AFAIK, and there's more copy cataloging and less original cataloging, in part due to the technology that allows copy cataloging to take place. That simply reduces the market for a hard copy of the rules, or for simultaneous "seats" for an online product, compared to 1968 and 1974 when the AACRs came out and produced revenue for the publisher. To read this as a dismissal of small libraries is a stretch, at best. I actually presume that the greatest loss of FTE in catalog departments is in the large libraries, who are able to take advantage of sharing opportunities. Note that I, like Philip Davis, am one of those independent librarians who will not have access to the rules after the review period. Yet I earn my living, in part, helping non-librarians understand library data. If RDA is an online-only product it will be very hard for me.
if one wants to wait for the libraries Karen & Krew seem to see as the market for RDA to establish series control on kiddie books, one will be waiting an awfully long time
If that "Karen" is me, then you have somehow gotten the mistaken idea that I have anything to do with RDA development and marketing. I don't. kc -- ----------------------------------- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234 ------------------------------------
