Thank you for posting this. I am particularly fascinated by the RDA comments in the Draft. Since I've started reading RDA, I've wondered about many of the points brought up about RDA in the Draft Report (p.24, 25), and would love to hear more from the list about this. I've also been excited about some of the comments made in The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discover Tools - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf
And each time I've read RDA documentation as a reviewer, I realize that my work as a professional, albeit, unconventionally so, cataloger has not prepared me at all for the highly technical language of RDA - i.e., I feel really dumb reading it. But maybe if I just patiently read FRBR I'd get RDA. But then again, this may be precisely the point: RDA may be indicative of the changing professional definition of what a "cataloger" is, one that may wonderfully make us all the go-to metadata experts not only in libraries, but in other arenas as well, even if it results in a changing reality where the abilities of people like me aren't best suited for this brave new world. And I personally like the user-centered approach that the Draft Report and Calhoun's Report take in some regards, less so in others, especially when large research organizations like NYPL see these initiatives as a business opportunities for "merging" their research and branch functions - yet another changing
reality to learn to be at peace with. But that's a discussion for a different listserv.
Anyhow, sorry to ramble on, and thanks again for posting!
Laura Jenemann
The History Channel, CLiMB2 (Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building 2), Bronxville Library, Somers Library
lj27_at_drexel.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2_at_YAHOO.COM>
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2007 10:23 am
Subject: [NGC4LIB] LJ report on Draft Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
> Norman Oder of Library Journal has a brief report on the Draft
> Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control.
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> "The opening paragraph of the report, issued today, is stark".
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> http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6508740.html
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> Bernie Sloan
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