[DCRM-L] RDA question

[Allison Rich]

Richard:

Forgive me!!
I am sorry to have left you out the tally of DCRM at Brown.

Mea maxima culpa!!

~Allison

> 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 <mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Allison Rich <allison_rich at brown.edu 
> <mailto: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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>     "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
>     Allison_Rich at brown.edu  <mailto:Allison_Rich at brown.edu>
>
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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 Island
Allison_Rich at brown.edu

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