FWIW, here's what we're doing, and our rationale... Don't know if it's good or bad, or if it's for everyone...
At present we are retaining GMD's in AACR2, and adding GMD's to RDA. (Sorry, but we are.) Presently we're supporting two separate OPAC products, one of which is old and has very limited mechanisms for conveying format info. We have much better options for representing format the new OPAC. We do plan on removing all GMD's at some point prior to March 2016 (hopefully well before then). The three prerequisites: 1. We've upgraded all our sites to the newer better OPAC with nice format labels and icons 2. We've appended 33X fields to all legacy pre-RDA records 3. We've configured our staff modules to display something conveying format info in title hit lists. (Carrier? 300a?) That's the general plan anyway. ------------------------------------------------ Bruce Rennie Bibliographic Database Librarian Kansas City Public Library / KC-LSP 14 W. 10th Street | Kansas City, MO 64105 (816) 701-3404 | (816) 651-0528 (Cell) bruceren...@kclibrary.org<mailto:bruceren...@kclibrary.org> From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Karen Nelson Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:39 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] GMD - where is everyone on this? Hi, everyone; Could we get some postings on what others are doing now with the GMD? There are lots of opinions out there on this, I know. Accepting but not displaying in OPAC? Displaying? Etc. Some rationales would be helpful too. My librarian thanks you!
