Kevin M. Randall said:
>I don't think that change would be for the sake of change. One of the
>reasons (perhaps the biggest reason?) for wanting to loosen up the rules on
>capitalization is so copy can be accepted from other sources without having
>to "correct" capitalization.
And this helps access and the patron how? The purpose of the new
rules is to save work for us?
This seems a very Anglo centric practice; I thought RDA was also
supposed to be more international? This change (like abandoning Latin
abbreviations) would be marching in the opposite direction toward
English language centralism.
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