Another reason for not using all cap titles I just heard about is libraries which use all cap brief acquisition records to indicate materials on order.
Son Matt says: PERL is very powerful at both analyzing strings and changing them based on conditions, so one can get a bit fancier than merely capitalizing $a[A-Z] and =$b[A-Z] <http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/412-how-to-properly-capitalize-a-title-or-headline-in-perl/> For example, initials like "U.S.A." are identifiable by the periods they contains. USA, DEA and FBI and other common acronyms, initialisms and names can be kept in a consulted (and expanding) dictionary. But there are diminishing returns and I think you are right that 245s imported from ONIX would always require proof-reading and correction. For example, the way subtitles are handled in ONIX is a bit nebulous. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
