[Koha] Authorities difficulties

[Colin Campbell]

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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