Re: [RDA-L] Plans for Existing Bib Records?

2011-05-28 Thread Mark Ehlert
Mac Elrod wrote: > RDA requires only the first author and illustrators of children's > books as author mainn or added entry. First author as baseline comes from RDA; illustrators of children's books as required comes from the LCPS. If we're pointing fingers, let's point them in the right directio

Re: [RDA-L] RDA's too low baseline (was: Plans for Existing Bib Records?)

2011-05-28 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Mark Ehlert said: >First author as baseline comes from RDA; illustrators of children's >books as required comes from the LCPS. Since RDA's baseline is *far* too low, perhaps LCPS should have a minimum number of authors to be transcribed and traced if present (three suggests itself for continuit

Re: [RDA-L] Indexing 336-384

2011-05-28 Thread hecain
Quoting "Cheryl L. Conway" : The University Libraries is exploring re-indexing our online catalog. We are wondering: Are libraries planning to index RDA (336-384) fields within their library catalogs? I assume you means what I would describe as changing the mapping of MARC fields and su

Re: [RDA-L] Indexing 336-384

2011-05-28 Thread J. McRee Elrod
This is what we suggest to our clients: Mapping for OPAC display sometimes needs to be adjusted locally. Some mapping supplied by vendors has problems. Following are fields to check for. Unless otherwise noted, map to the named OPAC field given beside the field number. Where no subfields are g

[RDA-L] Identifying RDA records

2011-05-28 Thread J. McRee Elrod
I'm posting this plea to the MARC list: SLC initially programed the automatic identification of RDA records based on the presence of 040$erda. We now discover that subfield is not always present. We then switched to the presence of 33X. We now hear rumours that some libraries do not intend to a