<font><font face="georgia,serif">Actually, there are two libraries at Brown--or at least one library and one librarian--that use DCRM. I have inferred, from earlier traffic on dcrm-l, that dcrm(b) will remain as is for the foreseeable future, and that BSC is in no mad rush to produce a fully RDA-complaint edition. My Head of Cataloging (a wise and good person) suggests that I may be producing hybrid records, with RDA-compliant headings joined to aacr/dcrm description.</font></font><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Allison Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allison_rich@brown.edu">allison_rich@brown.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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>
<br>
Many thanks for your help and feedback,<br>
~Allison Rich<br>
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Allison Rich
Rare Books Cataloguer
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
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