[Koha] Authorities difficulties

[Nicole Engard]

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?

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Nicole C. Engard
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Colin
Campbell<colin.campbell at 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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