Still need distance cataloguers (fwd)

2006-03-27 Thread J. McRee Elrod
We had sixty responses to our advertisement on Autocat and elsewhere for distance cataloguers. Of those, only two have sent usable test records. Some had difficulty with basic cataloguing knowledge, others with computer skills. SLC still needs two distance cataloguers to prepare about 25 to 30

Re: RDA: an analogy

2006-03-27 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
Paul J. Weiss wrote: ... RDA wagons would probably work better than AACR2 wagons in the state of Libraria. ... We need to change RDA to be a broader, integrated plan encompassing cars, airplanes, trains, ships, etc., and yes, even wagons. We need to fit our vehicles, to stay in the picture,

Same Symptoms, Different Prescriptions--AACR2 22.2B2 & 22,3B1

2006-03-27 Thread James Agenbroad
Monday, March 27, 2006 In both these rules a person uses two names but in 22.2B2 both names get headings while in 22.3B1 only the predominant name gets a heading. In the first case one of the names is a pseudonym and the other a real name and the names reflect different "bibliographic identities"

Re: Same Symptoms, Different Prescriptions--AACR2 22.2B2 & 22,3B1

2006-03-27 Thread Gene Fieg
I think the rules in AACR2 for persons with real names and pseudonyms has to do with the fields they wrote in. In this case, Lewis Carroll is the "person" who writes fiction, while Dodgson is the "person" who writes on mathematics. Gene Fieg Cataloger Claremont School of Theology [EMA