Heidrun, AACR2 A.7B1 calls for capitalization of words or phrases that do not make up part of the name of the publisher, distributor etc., e.g. "Released by", "Printed in association with", etc. My thinking is that this is simply a holdover from AACR2, and does not really make any difference at all to the user. Outt of habit, I capitalize. You are correct in that it doesn't seem to be part of ISBD, so where it came from, I don't know. Kevin Roe Supervisor, Media Processing Fort Wayne Community Schools Fort Wayne IN 46802
From: Heidrun Wiesenmüller <wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de> To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 5:54 AM Subject: [RDA-L] Capitalization in 2.9.4.4 It beats me why the examples in 2.9.4.4 (and other similar rules, e.g. 2.10.4.4) are all capitalized, e.g.: Distributed by New York Graphic Society Sold by Longman I cannot find any justification for this in appendix A. It's certainly not mentioned among the elements where the first word must always be capitalized. Corresponding examples in the ISBD consolidated (4.2.5) aren't capitalized, e.g.: distributed by Harvard University Press to be sold by Jas. Gardner So, is there something I've overlooked, or is this a mistake in RDA? Heidrun -- --------------------- Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. Stuttgart Media University Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
