Mac, et al.,
I certainly agree that the changes will be more dramatic, and to be honest, in
some cases not welcome (to my mind, at least). What also has changed since
AACR2 came along is the number of staff members we have supporting the
cataloging, and the willingness of our administration
J. McRee Elrod wrote:
There were no main entry changes for monographs as dramatic as the
dropping
of the rule of three.
For me, the most difficult earlier change was entry for serials and
series. I had spent years with Journal of chemistry being entered
under title, and Journal of the Chemical
Agreed [though I'm not sure that's the specific issue Mac was
addressing] -- the Task Force on the Rule of 3 final report (2001) reads:
The rule of three was certainly not based on the functions of the
catalog as stated in the basic principles cited above [the Paris
Principles, etc.]; when
John Myers listed earlier rule changes:
The changes incumbent with respect to:
1. - form of entry for pseudonyms,
2. - form of entry of corporate bodies,
3. - editors as main entry, and
4. - corporate bodies as main entry
were substantial.
1. Yes, moving Clemens to Twain was a major
On my planet, the change in corporate body entry was quite noticeable. It took
place in a predominant context of card catalogs, prior to large-scale
retrospective conversion, and required users to look under two
headings--typically widely separated in the catalog--for many, many corporate
Jennifer Sweda quoted the Paris Principles:
... when access is deliberately left out of the record
for a given author, then the catalog will not be an efficient
instrument to find out which works by a particular author ...
RDA requires only the first author and illustrators of children's
On 05/19/2011 07:22 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
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Jennifer Sweda quoted the Paris Principles:
... when access is deliberately left out of the record
for a given author, then the catalog will not be an efficient
instrument to find out which works by a particular author ...
RDA requires only
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