[DCRM-L] Final Report of the BSC Task Force on DCRM/RDA

[Young, Stephen]

Dear DCRM Colleagues,

I commend the BSC Task Force on DCRM/RDA for its Final Report. The recommendations at the end of the report seem reasonable except for the second and final bullets. I suggest that for the coming months, the Bib Standards Committee focus its efforts on bringing the nearly completed modules to completion with their existing ISBD structure. No new revision of DCRM,  DCRM(B) or DCRM(S) is needed or desirable at this time and would in my opinion be a waste of time and resources given the LC-PCC PS for RDA 0.2 prescribing continued use of the existing DCRM(B) and DCRM(S) when appropriate. No editorial group should be appointed until June 2014 at the earliest so that RDA is less of a moving target and we have a clearer sense of what purpose a revision might actually serve. DCRM(B), though arranged differently from RDA, seems quite compatible with it and would be even more compatible if PCC approves the RDA BSR for Rare Materials, with its recommendations for style and extent of item, already approved by BSC.

Stephen R. Young
Rare Book Team Leader
Catalog and Metadata Services
Sterling Memorial Library
Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Tel.: 203-432-8385
Fax: 203-432-7231

Email: stephen.young at yale.edu


From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Carpenter, Jane
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:24 PM
To: 'DCRM Revision Group List'
Subject: [DCRM-L] Final Report of the BSC Task Force on DCRM/RDA

Dear DCRM Colleagues,

At the Midwinter meeting in January 2011, Stephen Skuce, chair of the Bibliographic Standards Committee at that time, appointed a task force, headed by Deborah J. Leslie of the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Catherine Uecker of the University of Chicago, to explore the issues involved in modifying DCRM in response to the implementation of RDA, and to develop recommendations for BSC on which direction to take in bringing DCRM into alignment with RDA.

The Task Force issued its final report on October 10, 2012, and it is posted on the Bibliographic Standards Committee web page:
http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/dcrm/rda/FinalDCRMRDAReport_20121010.pdf

BSC invites all members of the rare materials community to read the report and post any comments or suggestions to the DCRM-L list.

We welcome and encourage your contributions to this ongoing discussion, and look forward to hearing from you,

Jane F. Carpenter
Chair, Bibliographic Standards Committee
Special Collections Cataloger
UCLA Library Special Collections
jfcarpenter at library.ucla.edu<mailto:jfcarpenter at library.ucla.edu>
310-206-5336







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