Re: Manifestation/resource?

2006-01-31 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
J. McRee Elrod schrieb: To me, it makes a lot more sense to stretch "publication" to include everything made available for any audience ... Fine with me. But there are many information resources we catalogue which are not considered "published", e.g., theses (a fiction on our part), manuscr

Re: Manifestation/resource?

2006-01-31 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
J. McRee Elrod wrote: and why, in fact, was "resource" favored over "document" or "publication"? I suspect because no matter how we redefine words (e.g., a ""biblio'graphy" includes websites), "document" and "publication" denotes paper to most people. But "paper", although going back to pa

Re: Cataloging WHETHER vs WHERE

2006-01-31 Thread J. McRee Elrod
"James Weinheimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ISBD is critical for description and is designed for international >interoperability. At least on this we are in total agreement. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://

Re: Manifestation/resource?

2006-01-31 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Bernhard Eversberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To me, it makes a lot more sense to stretch "publication" to include >everything made available for any audience ... Fine with me. But there are many information resources we catalogue which are not considered "published", e.g., theses (a fiction