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Joel Hahn | 15 May 17:30

Re: Horrible record

Janet Hill wrote:
> Hank Young wrote:
> 	Just last week one of our senior Public Services 
> Librarians made an impassioned plea to a group of mostly 
> catalogers to "Please reduce the amount of OCLC spam" she 
> gets when doing a search in Worldcat.
> -----
> 
> My comment about the message above is not exactly about 
> cataloging, but it
> is tenuously related to it.  It's about misuse of the term 
> SPAM.   Spam is
> not just stuff you don't want to see.  It is stuff sent out 
> deliberately for commercial purposes, or occasionally on 
> purpose to disrupt the
> business/lives of others.   

Because I'm also feeling pedantic this morning:

The origin of this sense of the the word "spam" is the Monty Python
"Spam Spam Spam Eggs and Spam" routine, which had nothing whatsoever to
do with unsolicited commercial e-mail.  In Internet parlance, "spam" has
always meant, as a verb, to flood a resource with unwanted data, or as a
noun, a datum used in such a flood.  See the Jargon File at
<http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/spam.html>

This definition is applied to unsolicited commercial e-mail not because
of its commercial nature, but because it's so darn hard to find the
*real* e-mail amidst the onslaught of junk mail.

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Shorten, Jay | 15 May 18:34

Re: Horrible record

I create/derive many records for e-book versions of paper books, and for the reason below I use the flag a lot
whenever I see more than one record for the same edition of a paper book. If, after examining both records, I
can't figure out why there should be two records, I flag it.

Jay Shorten
Cataloger, Monographs and Electronic Resources
Associate Professor of Bibliography
Catalog Department
University Libraries
University of Oklahoma
jshorten@...

-----Original Message-----
From: AUTOCAT [mailto:AUTOCAT@...] On Behalf Of Hank Young
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:37
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Subject: Re: [ACAT] Horrible record

        Just last week one of our senior Public Services Librarians made
an impassioned plea to a group of mostly catalogers to "Please reduce
the amount of OCLC spam" she gets when doing a search in Worldcat

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Bloss, Marjorie | 15 May 18:43

IFLA Satellite Meeting on RDA

RDA SATELLITE MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (Resource Description and Access) in consultation
with the IFLA Section on Cataloguing is pleased to present a satellite meeting on RDA, Resource
Description and Access. RDA will be a new standard for resource description and access, designed for the
digital world and will be the successor to Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition.

The meeting will be held on Friday, August 8, 2008 (just before the IFLA Conference) at the Hotel Chateau
Laurier in Quebec City. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m. Registration
is $100.00 (Canadian) and will include breaks and lunch.

The speakers and program topics will include the following.

Barbara B. Tillett (JSC member): An overview of RDA development to include its history and development
using the FRBR/FRAD conceptual models and relationship to the IME ICC

Deirdre Kiorgaard (Chair of the JSC): RDA structure and content

Gordon Dunsire (RDA Outreach Group member): RDA vocabulary and concepts, to include relationships with
ONIX, Dublin Core and Semantic Web Communities

Christine Oliver (RDA Outreach Group chair): Demonstration of RDA Online

Anders Cato (Chair, IFLA Section on Cataloguing), and Renate Goempel (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek):
The international community's reaction to RDA

Pamela Gatenby (Member, Committee of Principals): Future plans for RDA

For additional details and registration information, see:

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