On 04/07/2013 18:07, Elizabeth O'Keefe wrote: <snip> > On a somewhat related issue (it was raised in Mac's post), is anyone > else bothered by the display when only a death date is known? > > Smith, John, -1932 </snip>
I have experienced the same thing. I recently cataloged an item with the subject heading: Agatha, Saint, -approximately 250. I copied and pasted it unthinkingly but when I was editing my record, I couldn't understand what this meant, and it was only when I realized that the earlier heading was: **Agatha,**Saint,**d. ca. 250 and the "d." was changed to a hyphen, and the "ca." was changed to "approximately", did I understand what the heading was supposed to say. But that was only because I know the AACR2 heading. The new heading is incoherent. -- *James Weinheimer* weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com *First Thus* http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/ *First Thus Facebook Page* https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus *Cooperative Cataloging Rules* http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ *Cataloging Matters Podcasts* http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html
