It isn't difficult to tell if you're listening with headphones. Not Long ago I
bought a bargain recording of Rachmaninoff's Symphony no. 2 from iTunes, and as
soon as I started to listen I realized it was monaural. We're so used to stereo
these days it comes as a surprise when the music sounds
Ian Fairclough ifairclough43...@yahoo.commailto:ifairclough43...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I see nothing under 7.10 Summarization of the Content to comment on the
advisability of including a summary that is in another language than that of
the cataloging agency, nor in the LC-PCC PS.
Mark K. Ehlert
A Friday hypothetical question in the same general area: in Soviet books, if
the author is deceased, the name on the title page is generally enclosed in a
box. (For this reason, business travelers in Russia are advised that it's
offensive to draw a box around someone's name for emphasis, say,
Mac Elrod wrote:
The major change is that we now may include data formerly omitted, but
as with much in RDA, options abound. When in doubt, I suggest
including, apart from affiliations. There is a field in the authority
record for affiliations; they don't have to be in each bibliographic
As I read it, the alternative source is the LABEL on the disc, permanently
printed on or affixed to the resource, and NOT the container (or case), which
is specifically excluded as a preferred source. That's the way CDs and
phonograph records have always been done.
Misha Schutt
Catalog
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Adger Williams cautions:
Just a small caveat to Misha's plan for those who haven't tried it yet.
Many (all?) diacritical marks will come out
Adger Williams cautions:
Just a small caveat to Misha's plan for those who haven't tried it yet.
Many (all?) diacritical marks will come out reassigned to non-ALA characters
if you copy and paste into Word. (or at least this was true at some point.
Perhaps not true now?)
I have indeed seen
J. McRee Elrod writes:
Gene Fieg said:
Not to include certain fields, whether variable or fixed, does a disservice
to the patron who might be looking for specific types of information in
those books.
Some standards should be considered as very low floors, not ceilings,
for what we should
Karen Coyle writes:
It identifies only because it is displayed to humans. It does not
identify for any machine processes. ... That is not a
bad thing, but it limits what we can do with the data. For example, we
cannot do this with ou[r] catalogs:
-- give me a list of all of the books
Robert Maxwell writes:
... It has long bothered me, though, that FRBR defines a lot of
things as attributes that it ALSO defines as entities. Like place, which is
an attribute of a
number of entities, but also an entity itself. Or having publisher be an
attribute of
manifestation when a
Several decades ago, as a teenager, I had a little life-lesson that I
think is relevant to the discussion, if not of Appendix J, then at least
to the relationships among derivative works.
One Friday, the movie Anna and the King of Siam (1946, Irene Dunn and
Rex Harrison) was shown on television.
My (City of Burbank) junk filter caught the original email but not the
various replies to the list. Actually, my junk filter occasionally
trashes legitimate list messages if they look too much like advertising
(calls for papers, etc.).
Misha Schutt
Catalog Librarian
Burbank (Calif.) Public
Mike Tribby wrote:
The resending mangled my posting again, with a soupcon of difference.
Good thing I'm not
paranoid.
I'm used to seeing very long paragraphs in emails broken into two with
an exclamation point marking the break. My guess is that it's the
listserv software (or listproc or
Naomi Young wrote:
I agree ... that readers are often
searching for, say, 19th century women authors. They might also be
looking for works by Latinas, but I don't notice RDA proposing
racial/ethnic coding. We recognize race and ethnicity as potentially
slippery, emotionally-freighted, and best
Mac Elrod wrote:
In the real bibliographic universe in which we labour, most authors
produce one work, and most works appear in one edition. Works (when
needed to be traced as subject or added entries) may be represented by
authority records. Editions are represented by bibliographic
Hal Cain writes:
But the LCRI on AACR2 25.3B instructs us:
Alternative Titles
Omit alternative titles from uniform titles when basing the uniform
title on a title proper that includes an alternative title.
Thus at least in one type of application, a distinction is made
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