Karen Coyle said:
>Any place in our records where we do not provide controlled or
>controllable data we are cutting off any possibility of making use of
>that for anything but display.
The purpose of the transcribed imprint is *identification*. If 260$l
normalized publisher name replaces 260$b transcribed publisher name,
duplicate records will probably result.
Display is not an end in itself. Data is displayed for a reason.
While "FR" may mean "functional requirements", cataloguer and patron
needs seem to be far from our awareness. We seem more interested in
playing in our data sandbox.
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