Thank you. I've tested both thesentencecase and Microsoft Word. They do the same thing.
I find the substitutions by these programs unsuccessful. They just exchange one set of errors in capitalization for another. I'm left thinking the difficulty with all caps (or all lower case, or title case, or etc.) is a matter of taste. (These records are not coded as AACR2 .) None of the case variations affect access, they just look unattractive. And I find each of them ugly in its own way. As a cataloger working in a batch process operation, none of these changes is worth the time or money it would take to achieve (and I don't have either time or money.) Should I pass on this opportunity to put records for 15,000 titles into our catalog? I can't see it that way. These records will give our readers a chance to find these titles. I don't think our readers would prefer to not find a title to finding it represented by a record that uses ugly all caps in the title field. As I am interested in these editing tools and would prefer not to present all cap titles in our catalog records, I'll keep looking into practical way to make changing case work in batch processing MARC records. When I find something that works, I'll let you know. Thank you. Matthew Beacom Here are first 2 examples and each of the 3 transformations thesentencecase and Microsoft Word can make (I skipped the UPPER CASE and the tOGGLE cASE transforms.) Source =245 14$aTHE POEMS OF GEORGE TURBERVILE $h[electronic resource] /$c EDITED WITH CRITICAL NOTES AND A STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS. =245 10$aMICHELET ET L'HISTOIRE ALLEMANDE. (PARTS 1 AND 2)$h[electronic resource] Sentence case =245 14$athe poems of george turbervile $h[electronic resource] /$c edited with critical notes and a study of his life and works. =245 10$amichelet et l'histoire allemande. (parts 1 and 2)$h[electronic resource] lower case =245 14$athe poems of george turbervile $h[electronic resource] /$c edited with critical notes and a study of his life and works. =245 10$amichelet et l'histoire allemande. (parts 1 and 2)$h[electronic resource] Title Case =245 14$athe Poems Of George Turbervile $h[electronic Resource] /$c Edited With Critical Notes And A Study Of His Life And Works. =245 10$amichelet Et L'histoire Allemande. (parts 1 And 2)$h[electronic Resource] Had I selected the textual portions only, I would have gotten slightly different results with sentence and title cases. Here they are. Sentence case The poems of george turbervile [electronic resource] / edited with critical notes and a study of his life and works. Michelet et l'histoire allemande. (parts 1 and 2) [electronic resource] Title Case The Poems Of George Turbervile [electronic Resource] / Edited With Critical Notes And A Study Of His Life And Works. Michelet Et L'histoire Allemande. (parts 1 And 2) [electronic Resource] From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Stephen Early Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:40 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records On AUTOCAT, a recent posting recommended http://thesentencecase.org/ . I copied and pasted the titles below in its text box and found it worked as advertised* (I was not so successful testing the Microsoft Word method described earlier). Stephen T. Early Cataloger Center for Research Libraries 6050 S. Kenwood Chicago, IL 60637 773-955-4545 sea...@crl.edu CRL website: www.crl.edu<http://www.crl.edu> *Two examples showing what http://thesentencecase.org/ is capable of with no prior editing: =245 10$ai. The heterogeneity of rabbit anti-bovine serum albumin antibody. Ii. Kinetic studies of antibody-hapten interactions$h[electronic resource] =245 10$asubstituted tropylium ions$h[electronic resource] ________________________________ From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Beacom, Matthew Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:19 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records Can anyone suggest how to effectively edit titles such as these to remove the upper case and appropriately capitalize words in the title? A manual title-by-title edit is a non-starter since the above are the first 10 titles in a set of about 15,000 records (only a few thousand in the set have this problem.) The records do not include non-roman scripts. Thank you. Matthew Beacom =245 14$aTHE POEMS OF GEORGE TURBERVILE $h[electronic resource] /$c EDITED WITH CRITICAL NOTES AND A STUDY OFHIS LIFE AND WORKS. =245 10$aMICHELET ET L'HISTOIRE ALLEMANDE. (PARTS 1 AND 2)$h[electronic resource] =245 14$aTHE MOTET IN THIRTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE. (VOLUMES FIRST AND SECOND)$h[electronic resource] =245 14$aTHE TRAGIC HERO IN POLITICS $h[electronic resource] : $bTHEODORE ROOSEVELT, DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, AND FIORELLO LA GUARDIA (PARTS I AND II). =245 10$aINTERRELATIONS OF STRESS AND ANXIETY IN DETERMINING PROBLEM-SOLVING PERFORMANCE$h[electronic resource] =245 10$aSUBSTITUTED TROPYLIUM IONS$h[electronic resource] =245 10$a1,3-DIMETHYLBICYCLO(1.1.0)BUTANE$h[electronic resource] =245 13$aAN EVALUATION OF TILLICH'S INTUITIVE-ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION IN CONTRAST WITH TENNANT'S EMPIRICAL-COSMOLOGICAL APPROACH$h[electronic resource] =245 10$aI. THE HETEROGENEITY OF RABBIT ANTI-BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN ANTIBODY. II. KINETIC STUDIES OF ANTIBODY-HAPTEN INTERACTIONS$h[electronic resource]
