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RE: Comments requested: RSC/TechnicalWG/2024/1

Posted By John Myers Mar 07, 2024 02:56 PM
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To the extent that any of the nesting interrelationships of relationship types make sense, and particularly to the extent that the syntax of the inverses of those relationship types makes sense, there does not appear to be anything objectionable in the proposed revision. John Myers, Catalog & Metadata ...

RE: Comments requested: RSC/ORDAC/2024/1

Posted By John Myers Mar 07, 2024 02:21 PM
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I concur with Kathy's suggestions as improved structuring and text for the remedy being sought. There may be some further refinements needed to parse out the distinction and separation from the other Condition combinations, which tend to be formulated in terms of choosing a single language choice in ...

Final documents from the CC:DA Procedures TF Attachments

Posted By John Myers Feb 27, 2024 12:01 PM
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Final documents from the CC:DA Procedures TF

Posted By John Myers Feb 27, 2024 12:01 PM
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Dear members of the CC:DA community (committee members and interested subscribers), Attached are the three final versions of the documents presented at the winter sessions of CC:DA's meeting. The Representation document is unchanged. The Procedures (by-laws) and International Standards documents reflect ...

CC:DA Procedures Task Force Documents

Posted By John Myers Feb 05, 2024 08:50 AM
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Dear members of the CC:DA community, Attached are three PDF files for today's Procedures TF report. The main procedures document -- updated from last July to reflect the preferred terminology of Associate Member The representation document -- no changes other than the placeholder for effective ...

CC:DA Procedures Task Force Documents

Posted By John Myers Feb 05, 2024 08:49 AM
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RE: Moving Forward with CC:DA Procedures in Preparation for Midwinter

Posted By John Myers Jan 10, 2024 09:16 AM
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Dear CC:DA colleagues, I issue a second call for feedback on the proposed revisions for the CC:DA Procedures documents. The details for the points of importance are in the original email from January 3. That message includes attachments for the proposals if you wish to see everything in context. Regards, ...

Moving Forward with CC:DA Procedures in Preparation for Midwinter Attachments

Posted By John Myers Jan 03, 2024 10:58 AM
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Moving Forward with CC:DA Procedures in Preparation for Midwinter

Posted By John Myers Jan 03, 2024 10:58 AM
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Dear CC:DA colleagues, At the 2023 Annual Meeting, the CC:DA Procedures presented 3 draft revisions to CC:DA procedural documentation -- the CC:DA procedures, the CC:DA Liaison Policy, and the Building International Descriptive Cataloging Standards. These should come before the upcoming Midwinter Meeting ...

RE: Fwd: MAC papers and agenda for 2024 Midwinter meeting available online

Posted By John Myers Jan 02, 2024 08:42 AM
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As a followup to my message sent just prior to the holidays, here are the summaries of the upcoming MAC papers, with my draft responses. I welcome your further inputs. --John Proposal 2024-01 would alter the name and definition of Field 383 (Numeric Designation of a Musical Work) in the authority and ...

Fwd: MAC papers and agenda for 2024 Midwinter meeting available online

Posted By John Myers Dec 22, 2023 01:12 PM
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Dear CC:DA Colleagues, My apologies for "throwing this over the transom" just before many of you will be departing for a recess between the holidays. I had hoped to provide a summary of each paper before sharing, but circumstances have dictated otherwise. I will be reviewing the papers and generating ...

Fwd: MAC papers and agenda for 2023 Annual meeting available online

Posted By John Myers Jun 02, 2023 10:14 AM
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CC:DA members, I am forwarding the agenda, with links to the papers, for the summer 2023 MARC Advisory Committee meetings. As you can see, there are two proposals and five discussion papers. The exploration to capture all "imprint" data in a single subfield ($s) of field 264 has not resurfaced this round. ...

RE: Fwd: MAC papers and agenda for 2023 Midwinter meeting available online

Posted By John Myers Jan 19, 2023 07:01 AM
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A follow up reminder of the available MAC papers and the opportunity to provide feedback that I can convey to MAC. I am particularly interested in responses to Discussion Paper 2023-DP01. To be frank, I am deeply troubled by the underlying thought processes to justify what it proposes for consideration ...

Fwd: MAC papers and agenda for 2023 Midwinter meeting available online

Posted By John Myers Jan 05, 2023 07:44 AM
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Colleagues, Attached is the agenda and papers for the MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) meetings that will take place January 31-February 2, 2023. For your benefit, I have interspersed some descriptive language after each paper. All of the papers touch on matters of descriptive cataloging to some degree, ...

Sad news regarding former CC:DA member

Posted By John Myers Dec 20, 2022 08:55 AM
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Dear Colleagues, I regret to convey the sad news that Nancy Poehlmann, Special Collections Cataloging Coordinator for the University at Albany Libraries, and CC:DA member from 2016-2020 recently passed away.  Her obituary is here: Obituary of Nancy E. Poehlmann | Applebee Funeral Home (log into Connect ...

Prospective paper for the MARC Advisory Committee

Posted By John Myers Sep 12, 2022 07:00 AM
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Dear Colleagues, I recently came across a situation where I desired to record some family biographical information associated with a specific copy of a title in our collection. It seemed appropriate to record this in MARC 21 field 545 "Biographical or Historical Data." When using this field it seemed ...

RE: Feedback Comment - RSC/RSCSecretary/2002/2, Recommendation 9

Posted By John Myers Sep 09, 2022 10:31 AM
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I confess that I got rather lost in the intricacies of moving from the simpler (but less stringently modeled) terminology of prior standards to the post-3R differentiation among single unit monographs, multiple unit monographs, multiple unit diachronic monographs, multiple unit serials, etc., etc. Which ...

Feedback comment: RSC/Secretary/2022/4

Posted By John Myers Sep 06, 2022 07:01 AM
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I reviewed the proposal RSC/Secretary/2022/4. The proposal, in bringing the issue of adding larger place names to the recording instructions, has brought to my attention a further anomaly concerning the recording of full addresses, Namely, it appears that there is a missing explicit condition for the ...

RE: describing hybrid data

Posted By John Myers Aug 30, 2022 07:48 AM
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There was a time when US libraries attempted such "multi-ver" (multiple version) records. The practice had its genesis in consolidating print and microform serial runs, particularly in a card catalog environment. The practice did not long survive in an online catalog environment when the modeling for ...