Re: [Koha-devel] Re: MARC standards and North America

[paul POULAIN]

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
> > <address@hidden>
> >    

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