Pat Eyler wrote:
Friday, August 30, 2002 23:56 CDT
Hey Koha folks,
Just finished skimming through the transcript of the IRC mtg. and had one minor correction to offer:
MARC21 is the emergent *North American* standard and represents the collaboration of LC and the NLC (National Library of Canada) in creating the unified MARC21 out of differing practices in USMARC and CANMARC. This is ongoing, of course (still hammering out things, as attested in AUTOCAT listserv discussion on differing application of genre terms despite the 'decision' to adopt the Canadian codes, still resisted in practice by former USMARCers).
If you want to check on this, visit either the LC or NLC site for info the history of MARC21 and you'll see that Paul was a little off in saying that MARC21 was US only.
Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas lib. tech. lurker in Winnipeg, MB, Canada <baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca>
Sorry if i made a mistake. It's really a pain to remind all those MARC sub-normas... In fact, it may be a language problem : for us, in France, "Amerique", means "the north-american continent" (canada, USA, Mexique), and USA means ... USA. What is strange is that "Americains" means "ppl from USA", and we've no word for "ppl from north-america continent". However, we usually prefer canadians, as some of them speak french (a strange french in fact, but a very nice french) ;-) -- Paul