Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: >Mac, it is having affects I DO intend. They just aren't ones that you want.
You really want SLC to abandon using LAC records and create our own records from ONIX? If harvesting data is to speed record production, it will be at the national leve, not at the local library or cataloguing agency level, with some few exceptions (say 10% of most library acquisitions). But at the national level, if LAC (or LC) has the data submitted for CIP, why should they concern themselves with ONIX? I think pragmatic considerations have been largely ignored in the search for "interopability". Bibliographic data gleaned from the Web helps little with the intellectual process of classification and controlled access points. Mac __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
