Thanks, Arlene! Your text is a given for my course!
Jennifer Lang
--- Arlene Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> About 2 or 3 years ago I received an email from
> someone in ALA publishing
> asking me if I saw a need for a "student edition"
> (not sure if that's what
> she called it, but that's what I'm remembering) of
> AACR2. I wrote back
> enthusiastically endorsing the idea, but then I
> never heard about it
> again. Is it time for us to bombard ALA publishing
> with such a request?
>
> Personally, I do not require the purchase of the
> loose-leaf version
> because of the expense. I use _Introduction to
> Cataloging and
> Classification_ (10th ed of which will be out in the
> spring). Tooting my
> own horn here, I believe that David Miller and I
> have represented the
> rules pretty well in this text. ALA would not allow
> us to quote the
> rules; so we paraphrased them and gave different
> examples. They are in
> the same order as in AACR, and actual rule numbers
> are used. This can be
> used in class when talking about certain rules and
> can be supplemented
> with having Cataloger's Desktop available to project
> onto a large screen
> at the front of the room when specific questions
> arise that require
> reference to rules that are not paraphrased in the
> textbook.
>
> --Arlene
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