Wow--such wrath over a set of cataloging rules.
Liz Bishoff, Special Assistant to the Dean and Head of Office of Sponsored
Programs
University of Colorado, Boulder
Norlin Library N210F
Boulder CO 80309
Liz.Bishoff_at_colorado.edu
303-492-1471-v; 303-492-3340-f
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Naomi Young
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:55 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] aacr2
NOT ironic. Capitalist. The principal Anglophone library associations
consider AACR their cash cow.
Besides, I think it's not seen as a standard so much as an arcane religious
and legal text. Such texts, guarded by their priesthoods, are seldome freely
available, Gutenberg notwithstanding.
Naomi
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
>
> Ironic. The standard is not freely available. :-(
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
>
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Naomi Young amethystmenace_at_gmail.com
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Received on Tue Apr 08 2008 - 14:48:00 EDT