Re: Controversy over RDA: too conservative or too radical?

2007-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >We must focus on producing records of high-quality. Reducing the > >quality and amount of information in the record is the road to > >graveyard. > > YES. It's how the records are produced, and how they are utilized, > which needs our attention, not rejigging what elements are needed in a > bib

Controversy over RDA: too conservative or too radical?

2007-04-03 Thread J. McRee Elrod
James Weinheimer has given me permission to quote him from Autocat: >When it comes to the information in the catalog record, I am very >conservative and don't want to change much, and only after a great deal of >discussion. As the Russian proverb says: "Measure three times before you cut." A h