Petition created and posted Nov 3. 2010 | Comments (5)
On Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz sent an e-mail to several listserv lists calling for a suspension of the current RDA testing in OCLC. His memorandum received much support, but cataloging managers at Indiana University, Bloomington wanted to provide a way for librarians to "sign" a petition in support of Wojciech's memorandum. We have used much of his original e-mail, with a few modifications of our own, to create this online petition. We're sending a link to this petition to the same listserv lists, in hopes of gaining support from others. Mechael Charbonneau, Associate Dean for Technical Services and Head of the Cataloging Division Spencer Anspach, Head of the Database Management Section Janet Black, Head of the Monographic Receiving and FastCat Unit Jaqueline Byrd, Head of the Area Studies Cataloging Section James Castrataro,...