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<DIV><SPAN class=750134619-16012003><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>I
completely agree that examples in DCRM should be encoded in MARC.
--DJL</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jane Gillis
[mailto:jane.gillis@yale.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 16, 2003
11:59 AM<BR><B>To:</B> dcrb-l@lib.byu.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [DCRB-L] Fwd:
AACR2 and MARC<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT size=3>I am forwarding this message
from Autocat because Gordon Pew makes an excellent point on why examples in
AACR2 (and other codes, I would add) need to be in the MARC format. I
think this has been discussed in Bib Standards. I hope we take this
advice in formulating the DCRM chapters.<BR><BR>Jane<BR><BR><BR>
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type="cite">Date: Thu, 16
Jan 2003 10:37:06 -0600<BR>Reply-To: AUTOCAT
<AUTOCAT@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU>,<BR> Gordon Pew
<gpew@law.harvard.edu><BR>Sender: AUTOCAT
<AUTOCAT@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU><BR>From: Gordon Pew
<gpew@law.harvard.edu><BR>Subject: AACR2 and MARC<BR>To:
AUTOCAT@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU<BR>X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.0c
(attachment(s) not renamed)<BR><BR>In replying to the thread about how to
record a reprint date, Mac Elrod<BR>commented, "Some decade I hope we will
have the examples in AACR2 given<BR>with MARC coding". I couldn't
agree more. It has often been noted on<BR>this list that AACR2 is a
cataloging code that is supposed to be<BR>communications-format
neutral. It is designed to serve catalogers who use<BR>every kind of
carrier from typed-up cards to integrated library systems:<BR>and, as
presently constituted, it is for use by libraries employing<BR>USMARC,
UKMARC, CANMARC, Australian MARC (or their successors), and<BR>probably
others.<BR><BR>Increasingly, however, national standards are moving toward
harmonization,<BR>and non-Anglo-American schemes are being studied for
harmonization as well<BR>(e.g., the German RAK, IIRC). Increasingly,
also, technology has allowed<BR>the automation of some of the smallest
libraries. These developments<BR>argue for the admission by the
code-writers that the great majority of<BR>libraries interpret AACR2 through
the MARC format. There are some things<BR>in AACR2 that I find very
cumbersome to place within the MARC format.<BR>One of the latest
developments, the accommodation of earlier and current<BR>imprints for
looseleafs and other integrating resources, is a case in<BR>point. In
AACR2, the provision of this information is made by notes: in<BR>the MARC
format, the information is carried (or will be) in repeating
260<BR>fields. In AACR2, 2002 revision, this is explained in 12.4 et
seq., where<BR>one is instructed to use notes for earlier publishing
information. You<BR>must know the MARC format in order to know that
you should enter earlier<BR>place and publisher in a second 260 field: and
your automated system may<BR>or may not generate a note in the bibliographic
record. If it doesn't,<BR>you must add one manually.<BR><BR>If "they"
won't take the steps necessary to make the correlation between<BR>AACR2 and
the MARC format, perhaps it is time for someone else to create a<BR>work
that will provide this vital service for catalogers -- especially in<BR>a
time when professional catalogers seem, literally, to be a dying
breed.<BR>(And don't even get me started on the complications caused by the
LCRIs!)<BR><BR>Gordon Pew<BR>Head of Copy Cataloging and Database
Management<BR>Harvard Law School Library<BR>164 Langdell Hall<BR>1545
Massachusetts Avenue<BR>Cambridge, Mass.
02138<BR>gpew@law.harvard.edu<BR>(617) 495-4487 </BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP>
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