> equivalent in RDA and perhaps should NOT have one. I really do feel that
> we've got multiple competing standards - well, maybe "competing" isn't the
> right way to say it. We definitely have multiple standards that are
> applied to create our catalog records, and I'm not at all sure that they
> work as well together as they should. We have AACR2, we have ISBD, we have
> ISO 2709 (MARC record format), we have MARC21. Note that we also have
> multiple standards creation points - JSC, LoC, NISO. This, too, seems to
> be problematic to me because there isn't a clear division of
> responsibilities between them.
Well, that is a very intriguing problem. In the absence of a decision-making
authority, is it possible for concerned librarians to come up with a
guidance model and promote it? What do you think the solution is?
K.G. Schneider
kgs_at_bluehighways.com
Received on Fri May 11 2007 - 06:10:25 EDT