Re: [RDA-L] What "they" are looking for

2008-10-27 Thread James Agenbroad
Monday, October 27, 2008 Dear Mac, I totally applaud your last sentence. A catalog is of a collection or its not a catalog. Well there are union catalog but aside from thelm. Regards, Jim Agenbroad In a message dated 10/24/2008 10:44:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EM

Re: [RDA-L] What "they" are looking for

2008-10-24 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Bernard said on RDA-L: >For "they" are mostly not after specific documents but after facts >,,, That depends on who "they" are. A university catalogue use study I did decades ago found that freshmen/women primarily sought topical information, but graduate students primarily sought known items (f