Good questions Nicky - I'm hoping there are some people from vendors
lurking here who might feel able to post some information on how things
might work with them. Presumably there will be a lengthy period (if the
national libraries go ahead and implement RDA) where lots of libraries will
still be operating in AACR2, which might be a hard business model to
maintain.
Celine
On Apr 19 2011, Nicky Ransom wrote:
> I am assuming that, like the rest of us, vendors are waiting to see the
> decisions of the national libraries before making any firm plans, but I
> wonder if they have any broad plans for dealing with the possibility of a
> hybrid environment. Will it be feasible to offer both AACR2 and RDA
> records? How will that affect their workflows? Currently, we get most of
> our records through BDZ and I am interested to know whether how this
> service will be handling the forthcoming changes.
>
>Nicky Ransom
>Data Quality Manager & Cataloguer
>The Library
>
>University for the Creative Arts
>Falkner Road
>Farnham
>Surrey GU9 7DS
>
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Céline Carty
English Cataloguing
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge CB3 9DR
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