The Monday grump wrote: > If we are to align our cataloging rules to the > display capability of online systems, we will have an even more dizzying > area of localized standards. I, for one, do not want to see the ExLibris > Aleph v20 Policy Decisions published, followed by the III Milennium Rule > Interpretations, et al. > > In a Monday grump, > > Naomi Young
Oh so true! It's precisely because of the lack of display standards that RDA is really important. If we can't get the displays standardized, maybe it's because the DATA aren't standardized. If we don't have standard data, there's no way we'll be able to get standard displays. (Yes, ISBD does attempt to standardize both; but it's woefully short on standardizing the data, and the battle for using it to standardize displays was lost a long time ago.) AACR2 is nowhere near being a standard for data. And MARC in its current form has way too many ambiguous elements. Kevin M. Randall Principal Serials Cataloger Northwestern University Library k...@northwestern.edu (847) 491-2939 Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1978!
