[DCRM-L] RDA question

[Noble, Richard]

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.

RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-3384 : RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Allison Rich <allison_rich at brown.edu>wrote:

>  Hello all:
>
> This email is regarding the inevitable transition to RDA on 31 March 2013.
>
> What is the status of DCRM and RDA?
>
> 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
> 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.
>
> 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.
> 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
> the RDA stands committees on this.
>
> Many thanks for your help and feedback,
> ~Allison Rich
>
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>
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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 IslandAllison_Rich at brown.edu
>
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