Joanna,
Didn't you mean "let's NOT lose our strengths"?
At present, RDA promises neither to reinforce our strengths in the
transition to something different by way of catalogues/cataloguing, nor
to open the way to anything else. Result: cataloguing is on the way
out, or soon will be.
Hal
Hal Cain
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> I for one, as a scholar, professor, and librarian agree with all of
> Mac's objections to the lack of prescribed order in records. Yes, good
> software can parse, etc., but let's lose our strengths and what we as
> library professionals bring to the world of information and
> bibliographic systems.
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