I too was troubled by the comment which Mike mentions below ("NYPL would like
to politicize it")
Many of us have legitimate concerns both about RDA and about FRBR which
underlies it. I did not think it was a political question when Ms. T from NYPL
pointed out the extremely unusual 300 field.
Kathleen F. Lamantia, MLIS
Technical Services Librarian
Stark County District Library
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Canton, OH 44702
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Tribby [mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:43 AM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Subjective Judgements in RDA 300s????
>While NYPL would like to politicize it,
An alleged initiative to which you are contributing by replying in this manner.
As to whether patrons care whether illustrations are in color or in black and
white, in my experience lots of public and school library patrons do care about
that, and probably find that information somewhat more useful than the number
of pages devoted to "bibliographical references,"* a term which I doubt most
patrons understand any better than the frightful "col. ill." or "etc."
Purely conjecture on my part. I'll stop now before I further "politicize" this
thread.
Mike Tribby
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses
mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com
