Early Recruiting?
The publishing arm of the American Library Association sent me this e-mail the other day:
Cataloging Correctly for Kids: And Introduction to the Tools, 5th edition - New from ALA Editions!1
Good for them! It's never to early to start teaching the rug rats how to properly index and organize materials. With tools no less! After all, we don't want the yard apes growing up with an out-of-date AACR22 on the family bookshelf, when they need to be using RDA3. Do you want to raise a horde of ignoramuses who haven't mastered the new FRBR4 approach? I thought not.
Get 'em young, I always say.
Cataloging Correctly for Kids: And Introduction to the Tools, 5th edition - New from ALA Editions!1
Good for them! It's never to early to start teaching the rug rats how to properly index and organize materials. With tools no less! After all, we don't want the yard apes growing up with an out-of-date AACR22 on the family bookshelf, when they need to be using RDA3. Do you want to raise a horde of ignoramuses who haven't mastered the new FRBR4 approach? I thought not.
Get 'em young, I always say.
- Yes, I know it's really for librarians who catalogue children's materials. It's just funnier this way7
- Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition
- Resource Description & Access.
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.5
- Oh, just follow the links to the wiki articles, already.6
- As a matter of fact, I did attend a RDA/FRBR workshop. On my own dime. For fun.7
- I also admit that I've had to restrain myself from making the Bunnybright keep her books in alphabetical order and that yes, if ALA really did publish a "teach your child cataloguing" text I'd probably buy it.