Thank you, Mark, for sharing this document with us. For those of us who don't have the ability (for a variety of reasons) to delve into the minutiae of RDA, helps like the one you shared here are a huge blessing. I've printed a copy to keep with my RDA materials, and I know I will refer to it often. I had forgotten the whole "double punctuation" thing, and hadn't been doing that up to now. It still looks weird to me. If our patrons even notice, I imagine it will look even weirder to them.
Thanks again. Chris Chris Fox Catalog Librarian McKay Library Brigham Young Univ.-Idaho c...@byui.edu -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of M. E. Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 4:48 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Use of ISBD punctuation with RDA. And a workshop. Ian Fairclough <ifairclough43...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Will they need to know about periods at the end of fields, and ISBD > punctuation? I doubt it. I agree. However, I still mention this to folks since I can't judge who does or who doesn't care about this sort of thing. On the double punctuation point in particular, I add that I don't lose any sleep if there's a missing period. Below is a link to the cheat-sheet I created summarizing what end-of-field punctuation looks like in RDA records, limited to the 245 through 5xx fields. It's based on LC/PCC/MARC practice and colored by the current edition of the ISBD. <http://goo.gl/p0pWp> -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>
