Thank you all for having spoken out about the state of workflows and productivity. My anticipations this morning (short url http://tinyurl.com/3p8nmgh) could not be explained clearer.
Nevertheless, besides the challenges of the implementations and related national policies and legislations affecting National Libraries plans (see "actual RDA" versus "real RDA" debate on RDA-L and my conclusion at http://tinyurl.com/actualrda) I think many cataloguers are confused because they come to these issues from a theoretical perspective simply lacking practical experience and benchmarking / comparisons and confrontations with other fields of data management and practices.
I will try to consider the drawbacks of excessive academic approach to cataloguing issues in my next blog post (Cataloguing people and their relationship) though it... may take a little while considering the pressure to make proposals and the lovely weather outside :)
Brunella Longo
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