At 05:41 PM 10/7/2013 +0100, Elaine Bradtke wrote: [snip]

We're not implementing it because we can't afford a subscription to the documentation to even see if it will work for us.

Agreed -- it's not in my budget either. $355 to find out what? A committee changes its mind, another $355 ... My "national library" states: "RDA has many of the strengths of AACR2 but its new features will make it more useful for description in the digital environment." Our charitable purpose is to maintain a *paper* copy library [1], and while Captain Kirk's "to go where no man has gone before" is admirable (albeit sexist, Captain Janeway notwithstanding), and that MARC might be considered a fifty year old patchwork quilt, we will only contemplate new fields that are compatible with what we have. Best -- Paul [1] my definition of a library, based on cuneiform tablets being assembled in groups ("libraries") nearly 5,000 years ago, compared with Kindle et al.