Adam, Thanks.
Do you think that decision could be reconsidered, given the implications for 'access' and RDA maintenance/fallout? It seems the 'bulk' of the current authority records/headings are for conference names. I've created a few of the others, but rarely. The less problematic change would be to treat fairs, exhibitions, festivals like conferences. I am certainly in favor of more consistency. I do not have access to the current version of RDA so I am unable to make proposals for changes. Mary Charles -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:39 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc. Mary Charles, Since no one yet has tried to give an explanation, and without searching through all of the JSC minutes, where it can probably be found, I think the short answer is that they wanted just one rule to cover both conferences, congresses, meetings, etc. and exhibitions, festivals, fairs, etc. And in keeping with the principal of taking what you see for a name they decided not to drop off frequency words from conference names. They were not dropped from exhibition/fair/festival names in AACR2. Adam ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Adam L. Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 (206) 543-8409 (206) 685-8782 fax asch...@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Lasater, Mary Charles wrote: > > I was also surprised by and concerned about this RDA change for conference > names. Would anyone be able to supply > ?background? for this decision? Is this a change because of other cataloging > practices? Supposed to reflect ?what > you see? more closely or? > > > > Mary Charles Lasater > > Authorities Coordinator > > Vanderbilt University > > > > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On > Behalf Of Gene Fieg > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:44 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc. > > > > I noticed that in recording and constructing conferences, that it is now > allowed to use frequency terms to modify > the conference, like "annual". > > I think that is a mistake, and goes against the implications of some LCRIs > that said to eliminate terms of frequency > for other other publications. > > It seems to me that you want the construction for a conference to array > together, whether they were annual, > bienniel, quarterly, etc. > > That way they would array by year of the conference, hopefully. And not be > split by the term of frequency. What if > an Annual conference becomes a Bienniel Conference, or vice versa. I would > say drop the frequency term and only use > |b Conference. > > > > > > -- > Gene Fieg > Cataloger/Serials Librarian > Claremont School of Theology > gf...@cst.edu > > >
