At 07:05 AM 7/30/2006, Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
... if RDA doesn't help us with the access we want for the future (and the
data to support it), we'll have failed miserably.
Providing BOTH the textual and non-textual identifier links is a way to
help in providing access both NOW and in the FUTURE. And, interestingly,
that's what serialists have been doing for decades. (Not that library
systems vendors have been rushing out to provide any kind of functionality
for the non-textual identifiers...)
Kevin M. Randall
Head of Serials Cataloging
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: (847) 491-2939
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