Colin - the UK way sounds awesome :) hehe I have to admit I haven't kept up with RDA - does anyone know if some of the punctuation rules are removed? --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ 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. History does not always go onward and upward, I fear
Colin
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