Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
|Where online can I find the AACR2? Anywhere? I would like to read the
|formal set of rules.
Everybody's been suggesting reading AACR2 (and the associated LCRI's,
although technically some of those are deliberate violations, i.e.,
gutting, of AACR2 to retain certain LC practices). For a clearer
conceptual overview, you might be better served by reading various
introductions to and explanations of AACR2, such as "Maxwell's Handbook
for AACR2R" and others (you know, the ALA, Neal-Schuman, Libraries
Unlimited kind of books)--there may even be similar introductions
online. (Regarding paying for AACR2/AACR3/RDA, see my 27 Jan 2005
(3:05pm) rant in the AUTOCAT list archive. It's item #107798.) My
professional life has been nearly coincident with AACR2: it came out two
years after I started working in libraries, and it will officially be
replaced a couple of years before I retire.
Harvey
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Received on Wed Apr 09 2008 - 10:55:07 EDT