Steven Arakawa wrote: "I'm aware that the copyright date might be considered important by rare book/special collections cataloging, but I don't think the rare book perspective should drive general cataloging practices."
I don't mean to sound belligerent, but isn't this a bit short-sighted? I realize that we can't put *everything* into bibliographic records and we can't always predict what will be useful in the future, but copyright information will likely be important for many years to come. Why not include the copyright date now so that future generations can use this information for retrieval? Let's be honest, how much additional time is needed to add a copyright date if it's right there on the item? I am genuinelyconfused why this is considered extraneous information. Warm regards, Karen Snow, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library & Information Science Dominican University 7900 West Division Street River Forest, IL 60305 ks...@dom.edu 708-524-6077 (office) 708-524-6657 (fax)
