Re: [RDA-L] What do I tell the others?

2011-06-03 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Jonathan Rochkind said: Won't it have an alternate 'access point' for the other nation(s) too, and thus be findable at either alphabetical location regardless of which nation comes first in the given translation? One hopes. But main entry determines Cutter, thus place on the shelf; as well as

Re: [RDA-L] What do I tell the others?

2011-06-03 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Hal Cain answered Jonathan Rochind concerning why reference librarians might care about entry: Because main entry usually determines the call number within a classification sequence? The other half of the question was why they should care about justification of added entries. I think a patron

Re: [RDA-L] What do I tell the others?

2011-06-03 Thread MSHERMAN
Amen!! I agree, but I don't know if this will go to the discussion list. I'm probably not allowed to post anything. Maxine Sherman Cataloger Cuyahoga County Public Library Administrative Offices 2111 Snow Road / Parma, OH 44134-2728 p 216.749.9378 / f 216.749.9445 msher...@cuyahogalibrary.org

[RDA-L] Repeating 260$c

2011-06-03 Thread J. McRee Elrod
One of the clever RDA test music cataloguers noticed that 260 $c is repeating, so: 260 $c [2003], c2003 Those clever music cataloguers! That makes much more sense than the complicated solutions before MARBI. The copyright sign or c would be enough to distinguish one from the other. __

[RDA-L] Wrong example of repeating 260$c

2011-06-03 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Sorry! I sent the wrong example. To quote from the MLA report: One of the testers tried repeating $c so that the publication date and copyright date are in different subfields. 260 $c is repeatable in the MARC format ... 260 $c [1966], $c c1966. In the example the c is the copyright sign, but

Re: [RDA-L] Wrong example of repeating 260$c

2011-06-03 Thread Gary L. Strawn
At 03:55 PM 6/3/2011, J. McRee Elrod wrote: Sorry! I sent the wrong example. To quote from the MLA report: One of the testers tried repeating $c so that the publication date and copyright date are in different subfields. 260 $c is repeatable in the MARC format ... Yes, but: Multiple

Re: [RDA-L] Wrong example of repeating 260$c

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Ehlert
And then there are the examples of adjacent 260 $c's in the sample RDA records found here: http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6JSC_RDA_Complete_Examples_ALA_Rep_addendum.pdf -- Mark K. Ehlert                 Minitex Coordinator                    University of Minnesota Bibliographic Technical      

Re: [RDA-L] Wrong example of repeating 260$c

2011-06-03 Thread J. McRee Elrod
One of the testers tried repeating $c so that the publication date and copyright date are in different subfields. 260 $c is repeatable in the MARC format ... Yes, but: Multiple adjacent publication dates such as a date of publication and copyright date are recorded in a single subfield $c. Yes,

Re: [RDA-L] Wrong example of repeating 260$c

2011-06-03 Thread Gary L. Strawn
At 06:24 PM 6/3/2011, J. McRee Elrod wrote: One of the testers tried repeating $c so that the publication date and copyright date are in different subfields. 260 $c is repeatable in the MARC format ... Yes, but: Multiple adjacent publication dates such as a date of publication and copyright