Of course Mac and others are right, there's no n.d. in AACR2, and to guess a
place and a date is better than no information and Not Identified. Still I
wonder, if I know just 1 place and 1 date, as with much legacy data, whether
they are of publication, or distribution, or just copyright will make any
difference in searching.
Jack
>>> "J. McRee Elrod" <m...@slc.bc.ca> 12/6/2013 1:00 PM >>>
Jack Wu said:
>you can for the time being at least, go back to AACR:
>Just use: S.L. : s.n., n.d.
AACR2 did no have "n.d.". One was supposed to guess, even [19--?].
RDA provides [Place of publication not identified] etc. Our
cataloguers are instructed to never use those long uninformative
phrases, but rather to make a wild guess, e.g., in our case usually
[Canada?]. The cataloguer with item in hand or PDF on screen is
better placed to guess than the patron at the catalogue.
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