Heidrun said:
What strikes me as odd is that RDA is not very consistent here. With
respect to a symbol in a title, we're supposed to describe it in the
language of the title - regardless of which language this is. But if we
abridge a statement of responsibility naming more than three persons
etc.
Here's an (admittedly very small) problem which I've been discussing
with some colleagues the other day.
RDA 1.7.5 tells us: Replace symbols and other characters, etc., that
cannot be reproduced by the facilities available with a description of
the symbol enclosed in square brackets.
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Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote:
I find it hard to believe that RDA expects catalogers to be able to
describe complicated symbols in any number of foreign languages.
The LC-PCC PS for 1.7.5 has taken care
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I think that kind of begs the question. The part that she thought went
against RDA was the LC-PCC
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