You can also customize is a little for no additional charge. For example, we
chose not to have MARCIVE convert the 250 which is a descriptive field. For the
record, I'm not too happy with some of their choices for the 336-338 fields,
but we send so little that isn't RDA converted already that I
If anyone is interested, Appendixes E, F and G of the documentation for the
cataloger's toolkit describe many of the RDA-related changes we are making in
our database. At present we are changing one record at a time (as we do other
work on the record), but I expect to have a batch program
For the most part I don't think there is any pressing need to convert pre-RDA
descriptive cataloging. The changes to the descriptive portion of the record
are more or less aesthetic (p. vs pages for example). We have lived with
AACR2 and pre-AACR2 records living cheek-by-jowl in our catalogs
Some basic conversion is being done by vendors, though, of course, adding
relationship designators isn't an easily automated process. Just as an
example, here is the announcement from our authorities vendor MARCIVE. I've
left in the contact and marketing information just in case anyone is
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