Hello everyone,
I look after the cataloguing operation at Oxford Brookes University
and have been keeping an eye on developments in the US. I attended
the Executive Briefing last week and found it very useful; thank you,
Celine, for your excellent summary. Like many, I'm sure, we are
waiting for the June announcements before taking any further steps.
Whatever the LC outcome might be in June, it seems some libraries in
the US are going to continue to catalogue using RDA anyway, and I
suppose there will be those who may decide not to. The issue of
hybrid records (AACR, AACR2 and RDA) was mentioned last week; we have
long lived with different versions of AACR and pre-AACR records and
have had to manage these as best we can. I think we'll need clear
guidelines on how to manage the co-existence of RDA and the various
other record-types in our databases, and LMS suppliers will need to be
geared up to support all record-types.
Thanks,
Sandra Cockburn
Head of Cataloguing
Oxford Brookes University
On 18 April 2011 09:54, Helen Williams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for your summary of the Executive Briefing Celine - it's really
> helpful to hear about what was being discussed there last week. Did you, or
> anyone else on the list who attended, get a feel for whether people are
> excited about moving to RDA or reluctant to move away from the familiarity
> of AACR2?
>
> It sounds as if there were equal amounts of things cataloguers both liked
> and disliked about RDA as a result of the test period. Does anyone else
> have any thoughts about this? Are there particular things that you are
> looking forward to in RDA or other aspects that you are more concerned
> about? I work with a team of para-professionals and so all our cataloguing
> training is done in-house. I think that 'no more abbreviations' or 'no more
> rule of 3' will be useful in the environment I work in, but I'm more
> concerned about cataloguer's judgement as clearer guidelines are easier in
> the kind of setting I work in.
>
> Just to add, there are no 'right' answers today - we're just keen to
> facilitate an exchange of opinions and views.
>
> Helen
>
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