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I'm really impressed with this. I find it answers a lot of the questions I've had with RDA, and more importantly, the questions I've had about continuing with MARC. I find it rather sad that there has been no discussion of Diane Hillmann's presentation on the cataloging lists I'm on. Seems like too many catalogers WILL have to be dragged kicking and screaming.
Posted by: arkham | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 08:51 AM
You are going to have to change the name of your blog--a plural future is no longer permissable.
Posted by: The Improbable Don Quijote | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 08:53 AM
One of my colleagues named the blog. I see "futures" as a bet that there will be a cataloging future: a multi-faceted future and one that hopefully brings along the best of traditional cataloging and bibliographic control.
Maybe I'm being too hopeful though.
Posted by: Christine Schwartz | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 09:14 AM
It only takes a moment to post Hillman's presentation on the various lists and to start a discussion based on it, so go for it.
Posted by: Bryan | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 02:38 PM
I believe it's been posted to the lists I'm referring to. I will be trying to start up some discussion soon if nothing else comes up - but that there hasn't been any so far is disappointing.
It seems that catalogers are more interested in defending MARC and attacking RDA than actually looking at ways to make RDA work.
(Of course, maybe they're still digesting it, as I am)
Posted by: arkham | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 03:19 PM
Would you mind saying on which lists the presentation has been posted? Maybe I don't belong to some of them because I have not seen it yet.
Posted by: Bryan | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 04:35 PM
I thought it had been posted, but now I can't find it on either list I had thought I'd seen it on.
Posted by: arkham | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 04:55 PM
I haven't seen Diane Hillmann's presentation posted on any discussion list either. I originally found it on The FRBR Blog.
Posted by: Christine Schwartz | Friday, October 31, 2008 at 09:33 AM
Thanks for the link! Some interesting quotes/advice:
'Well supported rumors indicate that LC is considering discontinuing update of MARC21 sometime in 2010'
'Migrate from Autocat (please!) to some of the lists discussing newer ideas:
web4lib@webjunction.org
metadatalibrarians@lists.monarchos.com
lita-l@ala.org'
Posted by: Irvin Flack | Monday, November 03, 2008 at 07:40 PM