Well no – AACR2 has spent about 10 years being revised, ending up with something I know I’m not especially happy with, and I’m under the general impression has a lukewarm reception at the best of times... so maybe that’s part of the problem!
Martin From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Moore, Richard Sent: 24 October 2012 11:35 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA I don't think AACR2 used to be revised through populist revolutions either ... ________________________________ From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kelleher, Martin Sent: 24 October 2012 10:37 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA Hi Richard Well, can’t help but think that this looks like the Cataloguing worlds equivalent of burying under bureaucracy..... I was hoping for a populist revolution via the RDA list! Ah, well, I guess I’ll go for it. And maybe if a few others do the same, who knows? Maybe things can change at the 11th hour.... Martin Kelleher Electronic Resources/Bibliographic Services Librarian University of Liverpool From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Moore, Richard Sent: 24 October 2012 10:18 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA Martin There is a revision process for RDA: http://www.rda-jsc.org/revision.html If you wanted to submit a proposal yourself, you would need to discuss doing it through CILIP, as the relevant member body of JSC. That's the way RDA gets revised. Regards Richard _________________________ Richard Moore Authority Control Team Manager The British Library Tel.: +44 (0)1937 546806 E-mail: richard.mo...@bl.uk<mailto:richard.mo...@bl.uk> ________________________________ From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kelleher, Martin Sent: 24 October 2012 10:02 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA Well, there does seem to be a large amount of discontent, if not widespread rejection of the 330s replacing the GMD. And I see a few others were using similarly user friendly (DVD, book on CD) terms to us, perhaps similarly hoping as we were that this would be the direction things would go in. But is there anything we can actually do about it? Or would that be another 10 year+ revisionary process?? Martin Kelleher Electronic Resources/Bibliographic Services Librarian University of Liverpool
