>For all the carping from catalogers that love abbreviations, I do not >understand what the benefit is supposed to be.
An increase in throughput time for most records (anyway nearly all of the ones that have information in the 260$a) for little or no benefit. Of course if I could just slough it off on the students in our copy cataloging module I might not care. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com