The part that makes us look silly is expecting catalogers to learn rules for inputting such punctuation and arguing among themselves about it rather than letting software supply as needed for display. There is no need to add ending punctuation to elements that are displayed on separate lines, and it certainly doesn't need to be carried in the data, i.e., in the MARC field (except for the limitations of MARC and our systems).
----------------------------------------------------------- John Hostage Authorities and Database Integrity Librarian Langdell Hall [email protected] Harvard Law School Library +(1)(617) 495-3974 (voice) Cambridge, MA 02138 +(1)(617) 496-4409 (fax) http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/ > -----Original Message----- > This is an angels dancing on pin sort of distinction which makes us > look silly.
