Re: [RDA-L] I'm taillights

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Tribby
>Roman sandals after knee surgery? Hmmm... :) Well, of course the full Merle Haggard reference to them was "Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen." And then again, it's highly unlikely I'll ever be in Muskogee, Oklahoma, at least not willingly. Mike Tribby Senior

[RDA-L] I'm taillights

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Tribby
list members) is this: your discussions might be more fruitful if you managed to keep in mind that just because other list members disagree with you it doesn't mean they are drooling incompetents or arbitrary obstructionists. They might simply disagree with you. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloge

Re: [RDA-L] Illustrators as creators, not contributors

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Tribby
ood fans, but not to baseball statisticians. "I think most catalogers would have no trouble seeing this line." Of course you do. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Illustrators as creators, not contributors

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Tribby
d for information about Clint Eastwood? I don't think Ox Eckhardt ever appeared in national media talking to an empty chair (but maybe he should have). Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -O

Re: [RDA-L] Illustrators as creators, not contributors

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Tribby
Wotta boon! (The fact of IMDb already existing notwithstanding). And let's extend this fantastic accomplishment to other areas of interest and inquiry, too. How long until I can consult my local OPAC to find out who won the batting title in the Pacific Coast League in 1932? Mike T

Re: [RDA-L] AACR2 in RDA Toolkit

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Tribby
adoption, its backers avoiding the appearance of being heavy-handed is a ship that has long ago sailed. And sunk. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA

2012-10-25 Thread Mike Tribby
ho might like to see _all_ of the rules when undertaking cataloging. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA

2012-10-23 Thread Mike Tribby
ally find any of those used as GMD's on MARC from OCLC or LC." Perhaps they're for local use with human catalog users. Quaint, huh? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] accompanying material

2012-10-15 Thread Mike Tribby
at when the accompanying material is something like a spinnin' disc we render its measurment in "inches" unless some august body somewhere has defined "in" as a symbol rather than an infernal abbreviation. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-25 Thread Mike Tribby
ning part of the sanctity of FRBR, RDA, and for all I know the genetic code of the ancient masters. The attitude that drives these responses from the true believers is as much a part of the problem with moving ahead as anything else, maybe much more. It's hard to have a useful discussion

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Mike Tribby
words "film" and "music" more frequently how could I have made this any clearer? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Mike Tribby
nces browsing and serendipitous discovery, but isn't always essential. Perhaps relator codes could be added to older records when the titles those records represent circulate. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Mike Tribby
similar to how OpenURL works today, browser would show faculty member which items in that list are available at the library. Thus faculty member gets 1) needed information 2) link to library holdings, all in one place." >From me: Yes! Exactly right. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality B

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Mike Tribby
sers looking for stuff by and about current film participants may be no more numerous than catalog users doing searches on D.W. Griffith are today. Not that I think that's a good thing, just that it seems probable. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's In

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Mike Tribby
me very interesting use cases that could show some real benefit from roles." That's my gut feeling, too, and is also backed up by my personal experience. If fully realized it would be a definite benefit for library patrons-- but it still wouldn't replace other more dedicated sources.

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Music Joint Working Group

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Tribby
Would any of the august panelists Judy listed have at least a passing interest in the cataloging of popular music? Given the number of libraries with circulating collections populated with popular music it might be wise to include it in their deliberations. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger

Re: [RDA-L] Order of 040 subfields

2012-08-20 Thread Mike Tribby
to be bad cataloging. It's a bad tool for doing that, but righteous sentiment about avenging cataloging "errors" seems to overwhelm that. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] AACR2 records in OCLC

2012-07-19 Thread Mike Tribby
unmitigated glories of RDA enhancement, but perhaps you could be a little patient. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com From: Resource Description and A

Re: [RDA-L] GMD and Content/Media/Carrier discussion [was AUTOCAT: Large print differentiation in RDA]

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Tribby
I've already talked to them. More than once. Well, I'm stumped. Gad, I love this list. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Card catalogue lessons

2012-03-19 Thread Mike Tribby
can afford to do, and isn't something that gets done presently. If the rules are silent on inclusion of something like this, many cataloging agencies, including national libraries, will not put it in. Perhaps one reason some listmembers are finding these discussions frustrating is that w

Re: [RDA-L] Card catalogue lessons

2012-03-19 Thread Mike Tribby
t the information may not be included in many records, and, as Jim pointed out, LC's and BIBCO's rules don't require them to be. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Card catalogue lessons

2012-03-19 Thread Mike Tribby
mation. Doesn't mean the catalog couldn't support this kind of thing, just that as currently constituted it might not be the optimum source. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com ___

Re: [RDA-L] Revolution in our Minds: Seeing the World Anew

2012-02-22 Thread Mike Tribby
s. Is this another aspect of RDA similar to how RDA is silent on display but has instructions that designate displays in some fields? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] RDA as the collaboratively created way forward[?]; was Is RDA the Only Way? An Alternative Option Through International Cooperation

2012-02-16 Thread Mike Tribby
BTW-- in my experience it is ridiculous to posit that library users other than catalogers and our ilk do want to know technical terms and mechanisms to conduct searches. By and large they just want their stuff. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Showing birth and death dates

2012-01-30 Thread Mike Tribby
out the contents of the 300 field is along the lines of "Centimeters? Why centimeters?" Y'know the USPS two-letter codes for states of the United States are officially not abbreviations either: why not avail ourselves of them? It's not like their defining agency is any mor

Re: [RDA-L] Showing birth and death dates

2012-01-27 Thread Mike Tribby
e's mots in My Favorite Year. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Tribby
t to differing perceptions or degrees of stupidity. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:R

Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Tribby
is view, so adding tasks that may be mischaracterized as detail work doesn't enter into thoughts and requirements as to output. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message--

Re: [RDA-L] Offlist reactions to the LC Bibliographic Framework statement

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Tribby
ional value can and often is easily lost. Many of us stopped lamenting this a long time ago, but was it valuable?" Yes. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Recording ISBNs for RDA records in Connexion

2011-10-06 Thread Mike Tribby
27;ll cheerfully defer to someone who purports to understand why RDA does anything the way it does. In fact I'm surprised Thomas hasn't posted on this yet. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books

Re: [RDA-L] Justification of added entries

2011-08-22 Thread Mike Tribby
Finally an RDA question I feel fully qualified to answer: >Is cataloger time important? No, though RDA is hardly the only manifestation of this phenomenon. Thank you for your time. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:

Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Tribby
hing. Percpetion is still important, and I guess we're debating the importance of the perception that titles in all caps is a problem. *(Apologies to Marie Antoinette. I know she didn't really say that--or at least not in the manner it's sometimes suggested. Like the way I used it

Re: [RDA-L] Apocrypha - make a proposal!

2011-05-10 Thread Mike Tribby
s not a cataloging code<--->RDA is silent on display continuum? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Descri

[RDA-L] latin, the dead language

2011-04-29 Thread Mike Tribby
lossary of Latin terms. Apparently these bodybuilders are better equipped to search our information silos than library users at large are. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Sneaky Pie and Rita Mae Brown

2011-04-29 Thread Mike Tribby
films. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Brenndorf

Re: [RDA-L] RDA MARC coding question

2011-04-29 Thread Mike Tribby
I (further) wrote: >I worte: I realize poor spelling is unlikely to further sully my reputation on this list, but this is getting ridiculous. Good night, ladies and gentlemen! Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...

Re: [RDA-L] RDA MARC coding question

2011-04-29 Thread Mike Tribby
I worte: >In our practice titles with copyright dates but no explicit publicating date >or distribution date constitute the majority of titles- Publicating! Now I feel as if Friday has truly begun. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independ

Re: [RDA-L] RDA MARC coding question

2011-04-29 Thread Mike Tribby
tles-- and not by just a little. This seems to me to be largely a distinction in search of a difference. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Sneaky Pie and Rita Mae Brown

2011-04-29 Thread Mike Tribby
as a 700 to the Thin Man movie records. Of course I'd have to establish him first. And what of Toto? Should he ultimately be traced in a 700 as Terry (Dog)-- and his heading in I, Toto changed to a 600? He's billed as Toto, not Terry in Wizard of Oz... Mike Tribby Senior Catalo

Re: [RDA-L] Where to Direct Questions about RDA Examples?

2011-04-26 Thread Mike Tribby
uestions about the assumptions and decisions that lie behind specifics of RDA are no longer to be questioned. At least here. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: R

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2011-04-12 Thread Mike Tribby
haps my belief that it is not a done deal is faltering. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Tribby
>The questions above indicate that the questioner is missing the point of RDA >entirely. Of course they do. Has this list outlived its usefulness? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Tribby
can't handle the 13-digit ISBNs. ILS vendors have been slow to add a lot of features over the years. How many years did it take before they stopped using stopwords and started reading non-filer indicators? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Tribby
o be determined. Minds haven't changed much one way or the other in a good long time, or so it would seem from the online discussion. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Tribby
eading of my previous postings on this and other lists might suggest a likely answer). & The heck I can't. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Tribby
ignificant and voluble exceptions, that is. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2011-04-08 Thread Mike Tribby
changed the ending of the story beyond all recognition. Judgements about this sort of thing change over time, even judgments made by the principals involved. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Authority records per RDA for persons

2011-03-28 Thread Mike Tribby
creating the data, or as judged >>appropriate by the cataloguer." Thomas provides an iteration of what RDA says about information that may be used in an authority record, but I think Gene's point has more to do with what we _should_ include in an authority record rather than what vari

Re: [RDA-L] RDA "draft"

2011-03-18 Thread Mike Tribby
in books for which others have performed CIP, a great many authors seem to think it means quotations from the Christian Bible. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] RDA "draft"

2011-03-17 Thread Mike Tribby
have been complaining about the assumed cost of subscriptions to RDA for some time now. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] "actual RDA"

2011-03-16 Thread Mike Tribby
re held up until all cataloging agencies were in a position to participate fully, no initiatives could ever be successfully undertaken. When we get to the end of the adoption consideration process, it will be interesting to see what suggestions are made for non-adopters, if any are. So far it se

Re: [RDA-L] "actual RDA"

2011-03-16 Thread Mike Tribby
stic about that path. So far we at QBI are leaning toward utilizing Mac's cheat sheets. We'll know more if and when one of our customers adopts RDA. As I may have mentioned before, we still have had absolutely no inquires about RDA from our customers, yet we continue to sell cataloging

Re: [RDA-L] Subjective Judgements in RDA 300s????

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Tribby
re I further "politicize" this thread. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Abbreviations in RDA

2011-02-23 Thread Mike Tribby
>The following abbreviations continue to be used in collations: >centimeters cm >kilometersk >metersm >What have I missed? The purehearts dunning you for deigning to call shortened terms for metric measurements "abbreviations&quo

Re: [RDA-L] general interest in RDA

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Tribby
d if general interest in RDA doesn't happen >until there are definite plans to implement it. Indeed. Just as in politics it's hard to beat something with nothing, in this case it's hard to make definite plans about indefinite initiatives. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Bo

[RDA-L] general interest in RDA

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Tribby
An announcement went out on PUBLIB Monday morning for an RDA webinar: "ALCTS webinar: RDA Ask-the Experts on February 17, 2011." So far there have been no posts in reply. One can virtually feel the pulsating interest out there. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. T

Re: [RDA-L] Linked data

2011-01-19 Thread Mike Tribby
often for its track record with complicated or non-mainstream items. I'd still rate it as a bit more reliable than IMDb, but prone to the same shortcomings. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Browse and search RDA test data

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Tribby
I'm still seeking the people who are reportedly confused to distraction by common abbreviations like "etc." and "ill.," so maybe I've been leading a more halcyon professional life than I realized. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best o

Re: [RDA-L] Browse and search RDA test data

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Tribby
letters at the start of the title (and possibly at the start of each word) are _larger_ caps than the caps that make up the rest of the title. I don't think my keyboard or my cataloging software is capable of creating caps in different sizes in the same field, at least not easily.

Re: [RDA-L] Abbrevitions in RDA records

2010-12-08 Thread Mike Tribby
ents would help drive ILS improvements or modernization. Nah, probably not. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Desc

Re: [RDA-L] Abbrevitions in RDA records

2010-12-08 Thread Mike Tribby
machine processing And if it works for humanoids, too, so much the better? Maybe this is the crux of the larger question. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Abbrevitions in RDA records

2010-12-08 Thread Mike Tribby
Would abbreviations constitute "a substitute vocabulary encoding scheme"? Still waiting for the English translation, Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Abbrevitions in RDA records

2010-12-08 Thread Mike Tribby
bulary -- those should be check boxes or drop-downs. And don't get me started on punctuation." Sounds great. Why doesn't RDA reflect this then? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Relationships in MARC

2010-12-08 Thread Mike Tribby
slough it off on the students in our copy cataloging module I might not care. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Relationships in MARC

2010-12-08 Thread Mike Tribby
ose incredibly obtuse abbreviations like "etc." or "ed." to spelled-out versions, too? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Status of the US RDA Test

2010-12-02 Thread Mike Tribby
early--at least in my estimation--on the side of RDA, but I don't think it's a done deal at the national libraries. Which may not forestall my bitter complaints at whatever decision is reached. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Dates in call numbers for RDA

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Tribby
the land. Given the huge numbers of headings roaming around WorldCat without benefit of authority records, I somehow doubt that authority control will be improved by not having the rule of three-- except at LC where I believe they have already decided against unlimited tracings. As will we if it

Re: [RDA-L] Dates in call numbers for RDA

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Tribby
s always the possibilty of using notes >that explain the choice of Date of publication (there is an example of a note >for explaining probable dates in RDA 2.20.7.3). And, eventually, there is also the possibility of taking a couple of hours to create the simplest records. This is progress?

Re: [RDA-L] Dates in call numbers for RDA

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Tribby
at another cataloger's desk in January of 2011. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailt

Re: [RDA-L] Dates in call numbers for RDA

2010-11-24 Thread Mike Tribby
nor the arguments about how >correctly to record the "facts". Then I apologize to RDA. For this. Only. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resourc

Re: [RDA-L] Dates in call numbers for RDA

2010-11-24 Thread Mike Tribby
Wikipedia, or on Google when they encounter common definitions that they don't recognize). Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Dates in call numbers for RDA

2010-11-24 Thread Mike Tribby
7;s the returns desk? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On B

Re: [RDA-L] US RDA Test and OCLC

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Tribby
nough. Then we can all get to work complaining of RDA's inadequacy and writing articles extolling the Next Big Thing. Monday, eh? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] RDA records in the LC catalogue

2010-10-26 Thread Mike Tribby
be running XP much longer. The software vendor is "looking into" what to do about this. BTW-- when I asked what they had planned for RDA implementation, the reply was "I'm not familiar with that." A toast, then, to better days! Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality B

Re: [RDA-L] Parallel Title Proper RDA 2.3.3

2010-10-11 Thread Mike Tribby
>Beyond the core elements, I would assume that anything is optional -- or at >least subject to an application decision at some level. Hmmm. Thanks for the clarification, John. I think my records for the test just got a lot shorter. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The B

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Questions

2010-10-08 Thread Mike Tribby
t past about not relying on LC for everything? If the rules allow deviations in practice, deviations are sure to occur. Moreover, LC does _not_ prepare every authority record in the shared authority file. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Pre

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Questions

2010-10-08 Thread Mike Tribby
Understood, but RDA is supposed to enable catalogers beyond LC's orbit to create records that all can use. Sadly not every cataloging agency in the bibliographic universe follows LC policy. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independe

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Questions

2010-10-08 Thread Mike Tribby
" how does that achieve anything other than confusion? If confusion is our goal, I'm all for it at this point. But somehow I doubt that's what we're pursuing here. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Extent, Other Physical Characteristics, and Dimensions for incomplete serials

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Tribby
subfield b, however. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Be

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Extent, Other Physical Characteristics, and Dimensions for incomplete serials

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Tribby
>The more rules, the more time/expense. Little things add up. And we've got a >LOT of little things. At first blush, this seems an odd thing to be posted on an RDA list. Or maybe I mean ironic. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Ind

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Extent, Other Physical Characteristics, and Dimensions for incomplete serials

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Tribby
for the scrap heap. There are competing priorities in everything we do. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Extent, Other Physical Characteristics, and Dimensions for incomplete serials

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Tribby
And I used the wrong form--"it's" rather than "its," too. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / R

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Extent, Other Physical Characteristics, and Dimensions for incomplete serials

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Tribby
As Maxine's post suggested, when a serial does finally publish it's last volume, the number of volumes could be recorded in the record whether the record is electronic, card, or liquid. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses

Re: [RDA-L] Interesting conversations about RDA and FRBR ...

2010-09-15 Thread Mike Tribby
a keyword search would bring up the Danish version, too, though. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Ac

Re: [RDA-L] Time and effort

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Tribby
. IMNSHO, of course. Reporting from Planet Weinheimer, Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Time and effort

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Tribby
of LC (among others) don't emphasize the obligatory nod to the tentative nature of adoption underlines the suspicions being expressed. Of course one probably needs to have a "suspicious mind" [ref. the Elvis Presley song Suspicious Minds] to have these suspicions. I defintiely q

Re: [RDA-L] Time and effort

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Tribby
>"We've gone too far to turn back" doesn't do it for me. Me either. How about "We've committed too much money to stop now"? It may not be the most important consideration, but I'd be surprised if it's not a consideration. A lot of time has collec

Re: [RDA-L] Feedback on RDA

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Tribby
ose of attention to cataloging codes whether new or old. 2. And you're saying that there is at least one vendor currently working on an ILS that will accommodate RDA right out of the box? Kudos to them. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Feedback on RDA

2010-08-30 Thread Mike Tribby
ion for many. We have made the time to be involved in testing RDA. This is simply not possible for many. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Feedback on RDA

2010-08-30 Thread Mike Tribby
who seek change, I suppose. I do think it's clear that a groundswell of approval has not ensued, but I'm not sure that indicates anything more than more disinterest. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Feedback on RDA

2010-08-30 Thread Mike Tribby
adoption of RDA is not a done deal. It gets a little hard to remember that given things like the upcoming ALCTS forum regarding how libraries are preparing for RDA. The obligatory nod to an open process is too often forgotten. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of Amer

Re: [RDA-L] Keep your access to RDA after August 31st

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Tribby
>charging for it before it's even adopted or implemented is less than friendly >or helpful! But it is lean, mean, and a concrete manifestation of the often-invoked advice to "run it like a business!" Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America&

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Podcast

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Tribby
ngredient for success.) Difficult to say, but the response to the Toolkit, what little there was, has been lukewarm so far. Will it serve users better? On this most important topic, we know next to nothing." Very well put. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America

Re: [RDA-L] Consolidated ISBD and RDA double punctuation

2010-07-15 Thread Mike Tribby
> its necessary reliance on position in various Areas in order to resolve > ambiquity is anathema to metadataists Just one reason I prefer to think of myself as a metadadaist. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mail

Re: [RDA-L] misspelling in RDA Toolkit

2010-06-24 Thread Mike Tribby
Maybe it's a MACRo. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac

Re: [RDA-L] Contents of Manifestations as Entities

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Tribby
>Who creates, houses, and maintains Work Authority records now? With >identifiers in the form of accession numbers? Not really a different thing. So LC, then? Anybody inform them of this? Have they committed to it? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of Ame

Re: [RDA-L] Contents of Manifestations as Entities

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Tribby
>The place of the $a can, of course, be taken by a URI once work records >exist, but who will create them? Or house and maintain them? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Contents of Manifestations as Entities

2010-03-11 Thread Mike Tribby
So in RDA will the summary (MARC 520) and the TOC note (505) occupy the same field and will that field be repeatable? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: Res

Re: [RDA-L] expressions and manifestations

2010-03-09 Thread Mike Tribby
m automatically gets them. And if the changes are not a fit for what the first cataloger's user community needs? Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com

Re: [RDA-L] Resource Description and Access in Cataloger's Desktop

2010-02-24 Thread Mike Tribby
Well, Troy, that's a dandy--if not exactly cost-saving--development for libraries that use LC Classification. What about a Dewey-RDA interface? [Caution! Sarcasm alert!] There are still a few Dewey collections out there, you know. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Be

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