Hal said: >In contemporary bibliographic displays, the context is often >fractured. Therefore the meaning may be obscured.
The problem here is not abbreviations, but the fracturing of display. Martha Yee has it right: http://slc.bc.ca/yee.pdf The optimum display is the ISBD one, uncluttered by space consuming and misleading labels. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
