The reason you don't see the word active in the examples is because period
of activity is a separate element in RDA, so by definition the dates
recorded in that element are activity/flourished dates. Since there isn't
a separate element for this in MARC 21, we have to add in the word
"active" to the access points.
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On Wed, 8 May 2013, Michael Borries wrote:
I remember seeing all kinds of emails about replacing "fl." with "active," but when I look at the
instructions in RDA 9.3.4 and 9.3.1, I don't find any instructions to use the word "active," or any other word, except
"approximately." If one reads the instructions as they stand, it would seem that all one should record is the span of
dates of activity, nothing more. The LC training materials do clarify this with the instruction to use "active."
Michael S. Borries
Cataloger, City University of New York
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New York, NY 10010
Phone: (646) 312-1687
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