Stephen McDonald said: >But this is not a new rule. AACR2 had exactly the same rule. The AACR2 rules concerning introductor words are 25.3B, applying to uniform titles for items published after 1500, and in 1.1B, where the examples are clear.
The WEMI arrangement of RDA, as opposed to the ISBD and genre arrangement of AACR2, creates difficulty in interpretation. The RDA integration of rules for all genre creates other variant interpretations as well, e.g., do noncast motion picture credits continue to be divided between 245/$c and 508, or unified in 508? RDA sample records have both. SLC will combine in 508, apart from 245/$ca film by ... . __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ We have been teaching >this rule and learning how to deal with it for over thirty years. If you >teach cataloging, >I hope you are aware of this. There are certainly legitimate complaints about >RDA, >particularly in clarity and examples. But you cannot legitimately use this >rule as an >example of how RDA is a step in the wrong direction, when it is the same as >AACR2. > > Steve McDonald > [email protected] >
