At 09:54 AM 8/13/2015 +1200, clint.deckard wrote:
[snip]
When I first came across the / and saw it in the OPAC I assumed it was an
error with my migration. However it was in the original records and that
lead me to explore its history and usage.
The / might assist readability in a card catalogue but in the OPAC I
suspect it hinders, simply because it is 'jarring'. Cognitive dissonance
and such...
The slash is used (from what I'm told by qualified librarians) to separate
the "title...subtitle...sometimes other odds and ends" from statements of
"authorship, holding of copyright, illustrator, prefaces, introductions, etc"
As such, it represents textually the visual layout of the title page.
It is used increasingly[1] by LoC, BL, CaONL and many other national
authorities.
If your users suffer from "cognitive dissonance and such" and find it
"jarring", it's probably trivial for you to modify your OPAC layout.
However, Koha *should* in its default format continue to follow what is
done by the world's leading national authorities. Just my two cents...
[1] older records might not have the slash, just a comma. Updated records
by national libraries use the slash in line with new records.
Best -- Paul
Recently a librarian asked that it be removed.
Interestingly, one service provider includes the / and another does not.
Thanks again,
Clint.
James Weinheimer wrote:
On 12/08/2015 14.19, Owen Leonard wrote:
It may be standard, and it may be correct as far as cataloging is
concerned, but that doesn't mean it necessarily looks right to the
general public using the catalog.
As happens so often, when you take something out of its "native habitat"
it can look strange. In the older (obsolete?) ISBD display the slash and
other punctuation are OK. E.g.
Transports : travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 /
edited by Chloe Chard and Helen Langdon. - viii, 341 pages :
illustrations ; 26 cm.
I never met anyone who was bothered by the punctuation or even noticed
any of it.
But, when you "change the environment" you see:
Transports : travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 /
by Chard, Chloe; Langdon, Helen.
the hanging slash is a punch in the face, although probably nobody would
really care about the : (colon) between the title-subtitle. But if the
display was:
Transports :
travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 /
by Chard, Chloe; Langdon, Helen.
people would notice the hanging : and think that was weird too.
The Belgian painter Rene Magritte was really good at taking normal,
everyday things and putting them in strange situations, so that they
become weird.
http://www.mattesonart.com/Data/Sites/1/magritte/Hegel's%20Holiday.jpg
or
http://www.renemagritte.org/images/paintings/personal-values.jpg
The punctuation is similar. When not in an ISBD display, it should
probably be removed.
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