Re: [RDA-L] I'm taillights

In a word ... WOW! All the best in your future endeavours! Will Bryan be assuming your responsibilities? R. P.s. -- I enjoyed reading your second paragraph. -- Robert C.W. Hall, Jr. Technical Services Associate Librarian Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA 01742 978-318-3343 --

Re: [RDA-L] AACR2 revisions due to delay in RDA

Good afternoon, I sent to Bernadette only, thinking I sent it to the whole list. I've been following this practice for at least 5 years. Title main entry / $c by John Smith ... [et al.]. Note: Statement of responsibility on title-page reads: [List all the authors] [Trace all authors]

Re: [RDA-L] Plans for Existing Bib Records?

Good afternoon, Thomas said, It's the agency's relationship to the user base that dictates what policies and guidelines for catalog records will be followed. then James said, ... that a single author was good enough when there were more than three. Do I agree? No, and I never did. So what?

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

Here, here! ... well said. R. -- Robert C.W. Hall, Jr. Technical Services Associate Librarian Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA 01742 978-318-3343 -- FAX: 978-318-3344 -- http://www.concordlibrary.org/ bh...@minlib.net -- -Original Message- From: Lasater, Mary Charles

Re: [RDA-L] actual RDA

Mike, et al., Well said and well put. With budgets for FY 2012 being written, discussed (read:argued) there will be some public libraries, some not small, that will not be able to afford the paper copy! I wish I were being an alarmist about that comment; but alas, it is the way it is. R.

Re: [RDA-L] Reprint cataloging

Hi Pat, Please copy and paste the 773 (and the 580 if the 1st indicator on the 773 is 1). I worked on a two-year project cataloging reprints and analytics; and, 15 years later, they are still part of my workflow. R. -- Robert C.W. Hall, Jr. Technical Services Associate Librarian Concord Free

Re: [RDA-L] New to list

Hi Maxine! Long-time-no-chat. I concur with what you said; as well as everyone else's comments set forth in this thread! We've certainly discussed some of this in Cataloging Needs of Public Libraries at ALA. It it is true that we've been cataloging with AACR2 ... some of us since 1981.

Re: [RDA-L] RDA full draft

Terri, Greta, et al., Terri, we have discussed your situation before, and I brought it up in the CC:DA meetings. Believe me, you are not alone in this when it comes to small and medium libraries. I know several librarians who not only print-out things from their home computer on their time, but

Re: Fictitious characters as authors

Good afternoon all, Thank you for your email. We have been discussing this issue at our ALA/PLA Cataloging Needs of Public Libraries discussion group since the topic first appeared on the OCLC cataloging list several months ago. We also found out that OLAC had presented this very issue a few