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<font size="-1"><font face="Book Antiqua">Hello all:<br>
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This email is regarding the inevitable transition to RDA on 31
March 2013.<br>
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What is the status of DCRM and RDA?<br>
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We are the only library at Brown which uses DCRM and it is
becoming important to know about whether the conventions of
spelled out unnumbered pages, no more bracketing and <br>
the loss of sic are going or not. I'd like to hear from Deborah
Leslie on this if I may and John Attig who have been working on
this.<br>
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In the past my library has ha a long tradition of being "out of
the loop" with technical and standards issues and I don't want
to be in that situation this time.<br>
So I am curious as to whether our time honored conventions of
bracketing are going to be ripped away from us or whether thos
of us who use DCRM are still wrangling with<br>
the RDA stands committees on this.<br>
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Many thanks for your help and feedback,<br>
~Allison Rich<br>
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"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx"
Allison Rich
Rare Books Cataloguer
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Allison_Rich@brown.edu">Allison_Rich@brown.edu</a>
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