Transcribe square brackets found on the source of information used.
2.3.1.4 Transcribe a title as it appears on the source of information (see
1.7).
1.7.3 Transcribe punctuation as it appears on the source except for the
following situations:
a) omit punctuation that separates data to be recorded as one element from
data to be recorded as a different element
b) omit punctuation that separates data to be recorded as one element from
data recorded as a second or subsequent instance of the same element.
Since brackets are marks of punctuation (see a nice list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation), you transcribe them as found.
Adam
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* Adam L. Schiff *
* Principal Cataloger *
* University of Washington Libraries *
* Box 352900 *
* Seattle, WA 98195-2900 *
* (206) 543-8409 *
* (206) 685-8782 fax *
* asch...@u.washington.edu *
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Billie Hackney wrote:
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:16:24 -0700
From: Billie Hackney <bhack...@getty.edu>
Reply-To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
<RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA>
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: [RDA-L] Title with embedded square brackets
I have a print title with a set of square brackets embedded in the first word
on the piece itself. Here are the first few words of the title:
D[a]edalus, my father's horse, taken from the mill
I have looked in every place in the RDA Toolkit that I can think of, and every place
listed under "square brackets" in the index, and cannot find instructions. I am
aware that in RDA, you're supposed to describe what you see, so I assume the 245b should
be exactly as I see it:
D[a]edalus, my father's horse, taken from the mill
and I can add a 246 with:
Daedalus, my father's horse, taken from the mill
Is this correct?
Billie Hackney
Senior Monograph Cataloger
Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
(310) 440-7616
bhack...@getty.edu
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Adam L. Schiff
Principal Cataloger
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900
(206) 543-8409
(206) 685-8782 fax
asch...@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff
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