John Hostage said: >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.
I find reading the UKMARC records we prepare very difficult in the absense of punctuation within the elements. Elements with no ending punctuation look naked to me, particularly if in the same paragraph, or notes produced from 246s. >There is no need to add ending punctuation to elements that are >displayed on separate lines ... There is no way of knowing how an element will be displayed. Display will differ from one OPAC to another, and one type of display to another within the same OPAC. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
