Thank you, Amy; I had not thought to look it up in LC.
I would not claim real RDA expertise either, but looking at RDA, 2.5.1.4 and appendix A state capitalize only the first word in the edition statement.
Regarding your IMHO--I have no idea whether the "purer" record is more or less useful to users, to be honest. (I'm not personally convinced getting rid of abbreviations for well-known bibliographic terms like "pages" adds any actual value.) But from the point of view of a cataloging manager trying to get my catalogers to recognize and understand RDA records, "pure" records are more useful than mixed ones.
--Ben
Benjamin Abrahamse
Cataloging Coordinator
Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems
MIT Libraries
617-253-7137
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In LC’s catalog this is RDA and still CIP. It appears they had not changed their CIP template from p. to pages. I made this change in OCLC.
I am not an RDA expert, but my understanding is that capitalization reflects what is on the resource, and the 250 is as LC input it, so I suppose it is that way on the electronic galley.
IMHO, it is unfortunate that in spite of rhetoric about RDA being a new world view, much of our discussion focusses on abbreviations, capitalization, etc. Is this record really any more useful to the user now that I have made it “purer”?
Amy
Amy H. Turner
Monographic Cataloger and Authority Control Coordinator
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:54 AM
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Subject: [PCCLIST] RDA-ized record #692015454
Hello,
We are not a BIBCO library and so cannot update this record in OCLC:
#692015454, Biomedical engineering principles.
This record is marked RDA in the 040 $e, and has some RDA characteristics, but the 300 $a is still using AACR2 abbreviations.
Also, I'm confused about the use of capital letters in the 250 ("Second Edition", not "Second edition"?)
Looks like NLM was perhaps the last pcc library to touch this record.
--Ben
Benjamin Abrahamse
Cataloging Coordinator
Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems
MIT Libraries
617-253-7137