Hi, On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Stefano Bargioni <bargioni@pusc.it> wrote:
No, in my opinion. Please read http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/punctuation.htm (no longer mainteined)
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4900496/MARC21-closing-punctuation-and-other-ins... or other results from a G search for 'marc21 punctuation'.
Indeed - if you want to interchange MARC21 records, the ISBD punctuation should be included in the record, although because of the acceptance of MARC proposal 2010-07 [1], if you want you can set the Leader/18 to 'c' and omit the *ending* punctuation from the records (although ISBD punctuation within a field must still be included). This isn't an optimal situation of course, as it imposes unnecessary redundancy in MARC21 records. There is a recommendation [2] from a PCC task force I was on to remove ISBD punctuation from MARC21; you may find it interesting reading. [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2010/2010-07.html [2] (warning: .docx link) www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/sca/documents/isbdmarc.docx Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org