Re: [RDA-L] JSC web site not available

2012-06-28 Thread Myers, John F.
By all means, and let us maintain our card catalog in case the local database goes down. Just make sure you haven't moved it to the basement because open flames as a backup light source when the overheads lose power aren't a good idea in a building full of paper. These are the two faces of tec

Re: [RDA-L] JSC web site not available

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Murray
On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:02 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote: >> The website of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) >> has not been available since mid-June. > > We are being advised to abandon complete inhouse bibliographic records > for items in collections, but rather to depend of d

Re: [RDA-L] JSC web site not available

2012-06-25 Thread J. McRee Elrod
>The website of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) >has not been available since mid-June. We are being advised to abandon complete inhouse bibliographic records for items in collections, but rather to depend of displays created from linked data outside the ILS? Good luck

[RDA-L] JSC web site not available

2012-06-25 Thread JSC Secretary
The website of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) has not been available since mid-June. Below is a portion of a message from the information technology people at the American Library Association; I'm including it in this message with the permission of staff at ALA Publishin