[RDA-L] Chris Oliver Selected Copy Editor

ALA Publishing is pleased to announce that Chris Oliver has been selected to copy edit RDA. In this role Ms. Oliver will address the concerns described in last June's Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee. The official announcement can be read on the RDA

Re: [RDA-L] Tactile three-dimensional form

Well, they come in several flavors, so you might have to do more than one. (Does RDA support flavors?) Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access

Re: [RDA-L] Tactile three-dimensional form

I have also cataloged educational cards that have the scratch-n-sniff feature. Yes, if we are going to have tactile, we might as well also have the sense of smell. Getting back to the pig lungs, they smelled REALLY bad. The intention was not to smell them, however. But they were very stinky. I

Re: [RDA-L] Computer as media type redux

I'm told that Media type is a categorization reflecting the general type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource. But ... microscopic [not microscope] projected [not projector] stereographic [not stereoscope] etc. Why the exception for electronic?

Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement

Hi Karen and all, The V/FRBR project (which I left behind a year ago when I left IU for UNC) originally intended to do more than mockups and actually create a working cataloging system, but we ended up not having the development resources to pull that off in the 3-year IMLS-funded project (that