Wow! Mark, thank you so so much. Now I understand more. Have a great weekend! Joan Wang
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:26 PM, M. E. <m.k.e.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see a reply to this post, so I'll give it a go. > > Joan Wang <jw...@illinoisheartland.org> wrote: > > Is there a note order requirement in RDA? > > Nope. At least, not in the main body of RDA. > > > I searched RDA Toolkit and found > > Order of Elements in Appendix D.1 ISBD Presentation (LC PCC PS). There > is an > > element listing order in note area. Does it indicate a note order? > > No, not by my reading. Looks more like a random listing. And there's > some repetition to boot; RDA 3.20 (Equipment or System Requirement) is > given twice, for instance. > > > I looked at JSC examples of RDA records. They seem to show an order of > MARC > > fields like 50x, 51x, 52x, 53x, and so on, except the record for Book 2. > It > > shows a note order as the following: > > > > 546 Language note ## $a In English. > > 500 General Note ## $a “Co-published simultaneously as Journal > of > > archival organization, volume 3, numbers 2/3 2005.” > > 504 Bibliography, etc. note ## $a Includes bibliographical references > and > > index. > > > > (By the way, If 546 note is necessary in this record even if the fixed > field > > includes the language code eng. Why the record for Book 1 (in English) > > ignores a language note?) > > Probably showing off the application of different non-core elements in > different records. Consider a library where a language notice is > preferred for every record on the public side of the catalog and the > only way to get it to show up in the OPAC display is to record a note > manually since one can't be generated automatically from the 008 or > 041 codes. > > > If we focus on data element description, a note order really does not > > matter. But so far we are still working on a traditional work-form. Is > there > > a general practice? Or I missed something? > > Not missing anything. There's no general practice currently accepted > on note order. In the cataloging narrative, RDA's more concerned > about fashioning plot points and describing the characters. It's the > ISBD that spins one kind of story with these, but the current edition > of that standard says that the "order of presentation [of notes is] > optional." Neither CONSER's nor the recent MLA draft best practices > documents mention note order, to the best of my memory. (CONSER's > pre-RDA practice is to use MARC tag order, leaving the "Description > based on" and "Last issue consulted" notes at the end.) > > In my own cataloging, I stick with AACR2 (or near-AACR2) order because > I'm an embittered sentimentalist. > > -- > Mark K. Ehlert > Minitex > <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/> > -- Zhonghong (Joan) Wang, Ph.D. Cataloger -- CMC Illinois Heartland Library System (Edwardsville Office) 6725 Goshen Road Edwardsville, IL 62025 618.656.3216x409 618.656.9401Fax
