Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Colin Campbell<colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
On 07/24/2009 02:26 PM, Nicole Engard wrote:
I'm with you 100% :) I used to drive my cataloging instructors crazy cause I kept complaining about the stupidity of the punctuation rules.
UK Marc had no punctuation. e.g. names were entered $aSurname$hFirst names instead of $aSurname, First names. Then a few years back the UK libraries adopted Marc21 and a lot of programmer time (I speak from experience) went into putting back all those #!?@ commas, periods dashes etc.
I did the same punctuation-adding back in the day. While I think it is a good thing that the number of national MARC content standards got whittled down as USMARC absorbed UKMARC and CANMARC, it would have been much matter if MARC21 had adopted more of the good ideas from the other variants. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt