[DCRM-L] OCLC: Incorporating RDA practices into WorldCat

[Ted P Gemberling]

Deborah, 
Your comment made me wonder about something. I often take what I think is the best (or maybe for me the most convenient) record, add subject headings, signatures, and other things that will be useful to other libraries, code it as dcrmb, and replace the record. But if what you are suggesting is done, records with that coding will not be converted to RDA later. Am I being unkind to people at other libraries by making something dcrmb, thereby adding Roman numeral dates and so forth? If OCLC can't convert dcrmb records to RDA format, will that lead us in the direction of creating original DCRM(b) records every time we want something to be DCRM(b)?

I'm sorry if this subject has been addressed before. 

Thanks, 
Ted Gemberling
UAB Lister Hill Library
(205)934-2461

-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] OCLC: Incorporating RDA practices into WorldCat

Thanks, Will; I hadn't seen it (and notice it's too late for comments).

Given that OCLC is contemplating making global changes based on RDA provisions, it is all the more necessary for records encoded 'bdrb', 'dcrb', or 'dcrm' be exempted from such database massages.

Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003
djleslie at folger.edu | 202.675-0369 | http://www.folger.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Will Evans
Sent: Friday, 27 April 2012 08:36
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: [DCRM-L] OCLC: Incorporating RDA practices into WorldCat

Dear Colleagues,

FYI

http://www.oclc.org/au/en/rda/discussion.htm


Forgive me if this has been previously posted to the list.



Best,

Will



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