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Thomas quoted:
A person known
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[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates
Thomas quoted:
A person known to have been
Richard Moore quoted on Autocat:
As a matter of interest, in its Final Report (August 2011), the PCC Task
Group on AACR2 RDA Acceptable Heading Categories recommended that:
* For persons known or assumed to be dead: if dates of both birth
and death are available, give both dates, separated by
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Richard Moore
Thomas quoted:
A person known to have been born 100 or more years before the
formulation or re-examination of a heading should be assumed no
longer to be living.
A person born 50 years before being entered, will in five decades have
been born 100 years earlier. I ve been cataloguing since 1953!
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates
Thomas quoted:
A person known to have been born 100 or more years before the
formulation or re-examination of a heading should be assumed no
longer to be living.
A person born 50 years before being entered, will in five decades have
been born
Steven Arakawa posted:
Smith, John, approximately 1930-1985
Smith, John, 1949-approximately 1990
Smith, John, approximately 1890-approximately 1970
The simple use of ca. would avoid our having to find out what
approximately is in French, German, Chinese, etc., just as hyphens
before and after
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