Patricia Folger wrote: "The former coding in OCLC looks like "overkill" -- How useful/necessary/correct is it to code this dtst to other than s & have duplicate dates in the 008 date area?"
I'm not sure I understand the problem here. Publication dates and copyright dates are not the same, even if they share the same year. They are discreet data elements. That is why 264_1 $c and 264_4 $c were created in the first place, to better distinguish the dates and make them more machine-actionable. Warm regards, Karen Snow, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library & Information Science Dominican University 7900 West Division Street River Forest, IL 60305 ks...@dom.edu 708-524-6077 (office) 708-524-6657 (fax)
