Earlier Mike Tribby suggested on this list that the spelling out of
abbreviations be a matter of display.
Sarah Childs wrote on OLAC:
> Why not have the ILS translate the abbreviations for the users, rather
> than mandate that catalogers spend time typing out ...
I replied:
Another problem this
I sent this as a response on OLAC-L, please excuse the cross-posting.
Dear Kelley,
When you wrote: "What Julie seems to be looking for is some way to give
users an early warning of what they're going to get, especially if they're
not expecting to find non-book objects in the library catalog" you
Quoting "J. McRee Elrod" :
What word would you substitute for "kit"?
We went through this already on this list! The word "kit" is as
meaningless as the word "stuff" -- the problem, as Kelley points out,
is that one word isn't sufficient to describe the near infinity of
things that can be
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