Heidrun said: >I take it that you weren't joking and that this really happened - but >still I find it very hard to imagine. It must have been a long time >ago... in the mid-1980s perhaps? I just checked: The ISBD(NBM) was >published in 1987.
No joke. It was late 1970's early 1980's ((M) was 1974) when I first proposed an ISBD for nonbook maerials. I was young at the time (I am now 80), and those older male librarians who laughed at me thought libraries were for print resources. They also thought book stores were for popular titles, not libraries. All are long departed I assume. In checking the ISBD(NBM) you will note I was on the original working group. The material specific data area following edition was our idea. We were sorry to see that MARC split that area up into different fields for different materials. They corrected the mistake of having a different field (261) for film imprints, but separate fields for material specific data remain. There re only so many 25X numbers; had we remained in MARC, we sould have run out of fields as new genre appears. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
