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outdated matters that should be discarded.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romanized access points for names originally in other scripts is outdated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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