Re: [RDA-L] Qualifying access points

2013-11-06 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Mac said: If the place is part of the corporate body name, obviously a geographical qualifier is not needed for the name used as an entry. If removing that geographic name for a cross reference, should it not then be a qualifier at the end of the shorter form of the name? Exactly. And

Re: [RDA-L] Conference names without meeting, symposium a.s.o.

2013-11-06 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Richard, That sounds very sensible to me. So, as there was only a vague statement in my Johannes Secundus example, and the conference was not really named in the resource, I would refrain from creating an authority record for the conference at all (and also not trouble to try and find out

[RDA-L] Call for nominations - 2014 Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award

2013-11-06 Thread Margaret Dull
Colleagues, Please excuse duplication. * *Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award* Presented by the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section, the Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship award consists of a citation and $1,500 donated by donated by ProQuest, through its Serials Solutions business unit. The

Re: [RDA-L] Continuing helpful practices

2013-11-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun said concerning qualifying corporate body cross references: But I was amazed that this doesn't seem to be absolutely necessary under RDA. That is but one of *many* long established helpful to patrons practices which are not absolutely necessary under RDA, but I hope we will continue

Re: [RDA-L] Conference names without meeting, symposium a.s.o.

2013-11-06 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Heidrun said: According to common usage among German librarians, the name of the Hamburg conference is 101st German Librarians' Conference, and not Libraries - portals to the world of knowledge. We would make that theme: 246 1 $iConference theme:$aLibraries - portals to the world of

[RDA-L] Use of stereo for description of compact discs

2013-11-06 Thread Stewart, Richard
Apologies in advance if this has been covered before, but I am trying to decide whether to include the term stereo in the description of CDs (RDA 3.16.8.3, MARC 344 $g) when the resource itself doesn't specify the number of playback channels. Some cataloging agencies do, presumably on the

Re: [RDA-L] Use of stereo for description of compact discs

2013-11-06 Thread Kevin M Randall
Technically, a CD made according to Red Book specifications is probably most often going to be stereo in that it has data assigned to both left and right channels. But if it's just a mono track being duplicated in those channels, then that really wouldn't be stereo as far as what the RDA