So what is the purpose of AACR2 rule requiring a difference between copyright and publication dates? Is it a stupid question?
Thanks, Joan Wang Illinois Heartland Library System On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Snow, Karen <ks...@dom.edu> wrote: > Patricia Folger wrote: > "The former coding in OCLC looks like "overkill" -- How > useful/necessary/correct is it to code this dtst to other than s & have > duplicate dates in the 008 date area?" > > I'm not sure I understand the problem here. Publication dates and > copyright dates are not the same, even if they share the same year. They > are discreet data elements. That is why 264_1 $c and 264_4 $c were created > in the first place, to better distinguish the dates and make them more > machine-actionable. > > Warm regards, > > Karen Snow, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Graduate School of Library & Information Science > Dominican University > 7900 West Division Street > River Forest, IL 60305 > ks...@dom.edu > 708-524-6077 (office) > 708-524-6657 (fax) > -- Zhonghong (Joan) Wang, Ph.D. Cataloger -- CMC Illinois Heartland Library System (Edwardsville Office) 6725 Goshen Road Edwardsville, IL 62025 618.656.3216x409 618.656.9401Fax
