On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:24 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
The SLC cheat sheets have undergone extensive revision, and new ones
have been added. Any who have downloaded them, or received copies
from me, should replace them.
If RDA is finally not implemented, I will regret all the work
incorporating RDA alternatives. But the relief will be greater than
the regret!
Perfect timing Mac, congratulations!
Your MRI business with Michael Gorman is a stroke of genius, your
down-to-earth pragmatism and resourcefulness combined with his immense
knowledge and theoretical insight can mean nothing but success.
You are certainly right that AACR2 + MRIs can achieve practically the
same results that RDA implementation might achieve, at a fraction of
the cost and disruption.
However, and I'm not sure how big an 'however' this is, your approach
is an updating of AACR2 whereas RDA is a new approach with more
theoretical potential than AACR2. Only the test data do not exploit it
in that they do not go beyond Scenario 3.
Anyway, to build a convincing business case for RDA has just become a
bit harder. It would take at least a Scenario 2 commitment and a
successor to MARC. Before they have all of that in place, your new
deal might be extended further to cover as much of WEMI as the world
may need.
Cheers!
B.Eversberg
