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Posted By Thumy Webb May 22, 2026 06:36 PM
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I support the full deprecation of the critique/review terms, but don't agree with deprecating digest. In my understanding of the conventional definitions of digest and abridgement, A digest summarizes and organizes multiple things, which provides multiple perspectives or examples of a topic. The ...
Posted By Thumy Webb May 22, 2026 05:19 PM
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I agree with the proposed change. I'm a big fan of making documentation more consistent. Also, early printed materials were generally not issued with covers/jackets, so the revised order of the list makes a lot of sense. ------------------------------ Thumy Webb Original Cataloging Librarian Rice ...
Posted By Thumy Webb May 22, 2026 05:05 PM
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Regarding Kathy's observation about the use of "reproduced" in the definition/scope of item: on manifestation with: I wonder if it's a roundabout way of differentiating between things published (reproduced?) together vs. separate items joined together post-publication by the owner. --Thumy
Posted By Thumy Webb Apr 14, 2026 01:25 PM
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I vote yes to approve! --Thumy
Posted By Thumy Webb Mar 19, 2026 02:58 PM
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I generally support this proposal but have comments: Compositor agent I'm not sure about the term coherent layout in the proposed definition. Would a compositor for a layout that is purposely incoherent be excluded? I don't think the definition would suffer if coherent was removed: "An agent who is ...
Posted By Thumy Webb Mar 19, 2026 01:27 PM
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I support this proposal. ------------------------------ Thumy Webb Original Cataloging Librarian Rice University, Houston TX ------------------------------
Posted By Thumy Webb Mar 19, 2026 01:21 PM
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I support this proposal. ------------------------------ Thumy Webb Original Cataloging Librarian Rice University, Houston TX ------------------------------
Posted By Thumy Webb Feb 16, 2026 02:57 PM
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I vote FOR the motion to accept the proposal submitted by the CC:DA Taskforce to Propose Familial Relationship Elements for RDA as amended in its latest version. ------------------------------ Thumy Webb Original Cataloging Librarian Rice University, Houston TX ------------------------------
Posted By Thumy Webb Dec 22, 2025 02:38 PM
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Recommendation 2: In the section that says "Record an appropriate term from the RDA Illustrative Content vocabulary encoding scheme: illustration" it would be helpful to include the instruction "Record the term in the singular or plural, as applicable" unless plural is not allowed. Recommendation 3.2.5: ...
Posted By Thumy Webb Dec 12, 2025 12:39 PM
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Hi all, I have a suggestion and a question and would appreciate your feedback. Suggestion:The proposed definition of the proposed element uses the term "unit" but I wonder if "subunit" should be incorporated in the definition somehow to make it more consistent with how unit/subunits are used in the superelement? ...
Posted By Thumy Webb Sep 30, 2025 02:04 PM
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Hi all, I just wanted to confirm that only Recommendation 1 in the RSC Religions Working Group 2025/1 document is a new change, and that Recommendation 2 is a duplicate of what was already approved and implemented from 2024/2. Is that correct? If so, my only comment is that there are grammatical errors ...