Just for a sense of proportion: Of the 4200 (4194) bib records we have acquired since Jan 1, 2011, 26 are coded rda in 040.
Our OPAC is configured to be happy with them. We have been resisting split files in authorized headings, modifying by hand. In the event of RDA's being adopted, we'll have to change over the names in the (now-not-) split files anyway. HTH On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Adam L. Schiff <[email protected]>wrote: > RDA records are intended to be compatible with existing records. We are > accepting them as is in our catalog and have made the changes to our system > to be able to load them and not lose fields. We also decided which new MARC > fields we wanted to display and what they should be labeled in the display. > > It seems a large waste of time and effort to back-convert RDA records to > AACR2. I really don't see how users would be confused by them. There will > for a short time be some splits in access points between AACR2 form of > headings and RDA forms, but those can be cleaned up later once LC and PCC > decide which AACR2 forms of headings will be left alone and not changed to a > pure RDA form. Since we have an authority vendor, we think this can all be > worked out. On March 7, we had 157 RDA bib. records in our catalog, a > pittance compared to all of the records we load every day. I just don't > think this small number is likely to stand out. > > Also, since we use WorldCat Local as our public catalog, we could not > change the OCLC record anyway, as OCLC does not want libraries changing the > master record back and forth from RDA to AACR2. > > Adam Schiff > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Adam L. Schiff > Principal Cataloger > University of Washington Libraries > Box 352900 > Seattle, WA 98195-2900 > (206) 543-8409 > (206) 685-8782 fax > [email protected] > http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Jeff Peckosh wrote: > > I am not sure what to do when an RDA record is the only choice for a book. >> Do you usually make the records back to >> AACR2 or is your system the way to accept RDA records already? I just feel >> like if I don't change the records back >> to AACR2, our customers may get confused about the look of the records, so >> to keep it consistent I change them all. >> Would be nice to find out what other people do in this case. >> >> Thank you so much, >> >> Jeff Peckosh >> Public Library Cataloging Librarian >> >> >> -- Adger Williams Colgate University Library 315-228-7310 [email protected]
