Julie Moore asked:

>Are we still allowed to take a stab at the date if it's unknown ... for
>example, if there is absolutely no date on the item anywhere, but you're
>pretty sure it was published in this decade, is it OK to put $c [201?]
 
We are continuing AACR2's forbidding "[s.d.]", and continuing 201-] or
[201-?].  

I think we owe our patrons our best effort to be informative, and
certainly we are in a better position to guess than they.  We can
check the bibliography for last date of a listed item, for example.



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