I tentatively asked a question about this issue at the RDA update at ALA
Midwinter ("tentatively" because I haven't done any cataloging in 9+
years, and not much back then).
They had just updated us about how RDA would be available online for a
fee. I said something along the lines of: "If you want a standard to
be widely adopted, shouldn't you make the instructions for those
standards freely available to be reused in any fashion anybody might
want?"
I got a blank look from the panel, and no audible response.
- Lucy
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Naomi Young
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] aacr2
Liz.
You misread me utterly. I LOVE arcane religious legal texts. I LOVE
impractical philosophical arguments. I ENJOY arguing and switching sides
for the sheer practice. Anyone who actually knows me knows this.
My wrath, and wrath is too strong a word, try scorn, is for ALA for
missing no opportunity to bleed libraryland while crying poor. But
that's not on-topic here.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Liz Bishoff <Liz.Bishoff_at_colorado.edu>
wrote:
> 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
>
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