We cried our eyes out in 1976 when this first came to our attention at the BL. Even more crying when we couldn't get rid of it in the MARC-I to MARC-II conversion (well before MARC21 was even a twinkle) - a lot of tears are gathering somewhere.
Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill > Dueber > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] more on MARC char encoding: Now we're about ISO_2709 > and MARC21 > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Simon Spero <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Actually Anglo and Francophone centric. And the USMARC style 245 was a > > poor replacement for the UKMARC approach (someone at the British > > Library hosted Linked Data meeting wondered why there were punctation > > characters included in the data in the title field. The catalogers wept > > slightly). > > > > Simon > > > > > Slightly? I cry my eyes out *every single day* about that. Well, every > weekday, anyway. > > > -- > Bill Dueber > Library Systems Programmer > University of Michigan Library
