Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
. If it was going to be more, certainly that more should be based on actual evidence on what our current users want and need, and analysis of what that will be going forward.
And someone, somewhere, needs then to take those user needs and write the system requirements that would allow us to meet those needs. The lack of any thought about systems is, to me, one of the big weaknesses of our current model. It doesn't have to happen *in* FRBR, but it has to be done somewhere. I always wonder how one gets from "find" to a whole RDA chapter on the preferred form of name headings without some steps in between, and perhaps a few that follow. kc -- ----------------------------------- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234 ------------------------------------