Saturday, Ocotber 13, 2007 In order to avoid "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" one must first agree on what are the essentials that should be retained and what are outdated matters that should be discarded. I sense that the agreement is lacking. While new media are all about us the rules should still show a decent respect for print media as it is, I suspect still the domminant medium in most libraries. I believe ISBD descriptions are essential and that exclusive reliance on romanized access points for names originally in other scripts is outdated trivia. Others may feel differently. RDA is not yet clear on the latter issue. Regards,
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