Ditto Chris. This is an excellent resource. Thanks Mark for creating and 
sharing this!

Vonda 

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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 

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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>

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Mark K. Ehlert
Minitex
<http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>

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