"If I want an English translation of a work, why would I want to
know about the original and other translations?"
I think the operative word here is "I". What if
someone else wants to know, either a researcher or a library staff member
doing collection development?
The catalog serves many purposes
for many types of users on many levels, which makes it hard to fit into a
retail model of "I want it, here it is." The catalog is part of
the research process in addition to being a delivery mechanism.
Cindy Wolff
> James
said:
>
>>The structure of the card catalog allowed
people to do the FRBR user
>>tasks (where--for those who
understood--people really and truly could
>>find/identify/select/obtain
works/expressions/manifestation/items by
>>their
authors/titles/subjects (or at least they could if the catalogers
>>had done their jobs correctly).
>
> I am second
to none in deploring the loss of some features of the card
>
catalogue. But in addition to cataloguers doing their job, those
> cards had to be filed. At the end of the card catalogue era, this
was
> becoming increasingly difficult in larger academic
institutions. Some
> student filers were dumping cards rather
that filing them. Escaping
> card filing was a major improvement
provided by OPACs, right up there
> with keyword searching. In
Canada, micro or print catalgues produced
> by Utlas ending filing
for many libraries prior to OPACs.
>
> I agree with your
basic position on FRBR. If I want an English
> translation of a
work, why would I want to know about the original and
> other
translations? Certainly I am not interested in knowing about
>
resources not in the collection, when looking for immediate access.
> Few libraries for which we catalogue would have the array of
related
> expressions and manifestations to display.
>
> Since in Bibframe translations are different works rather than
> different expressions of one work, FRBR does not seem to be central
to
> Bibframe's structure, although there will be links relating
these
> works. Unfortunately, FRBR and WEMI organization of RDA
do make RDA
> difficult to comprehend. Theory trumped
pragmatism.
>
>
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