Hi all,
I will be summarizing the RDA (Resource Description and Access)
responses (thank you to those who replied - there is a lot of interest
in this issue!) and sending those out but, as RDA is still so new to
everyone, there were relatively few individuals who were able to weigh
in substantively and I'm trying to reframe the question slightly.
For those of you who are/have been catalogers in AACR2, where did you
find that the system fell short in describing visual
resources/art-related materials? Where do you think there is room for
improvement and how are you hoping that RDA will improve on what AACR2
offers? Specific examples would be wonderful, so that I can then
study the links I have been given, and the RDA Toolkit, to figure out
how RDA is handling those issues. I will also be doing research
elsewhere, obviously.
I don't want to flood the list but, particularly as I can't make it to
the conference in Minneapolis to speak to the RDA test librarians
personally, I'm trying to get my head around this not only for my
paper but also as preparation for what I'm assuming I'll have to deal
with once I graduate (an increasingly terrifying prospect!). Without
the time to learn AACR2 and its relationship to art cataloging from
scratch before my paper, this seems like a good way for me, and for
others on the list, to understand the changes that are coming.
Thanks again for the kind responses to my previous post!
Best regards,
-Heidi
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