Julie asked on Autocat and RDA:
From the PCC Guidelines for the 264 Field, I am hoping that someone can
please explain why the 264 _4 $c =A92009 does not end in a full stop?
There is no logical reason. SLC will use a full stop.
We should forget the ISBD fiction that periods at the end of
I agree. I think that we should either always end in a period *or* never
end in a period. But this inconsistency makes things much more complicated
than they need to be.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Julie Moore
Fresno State
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:53 PM, J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote:
We've been puzzling over this here, too. I could see the logic in it if
were only putting a period after the last 264 field, but I'm pretty
mystified by putting it after the first but not the second. Although
often when you have two fields the first doesn't have a period either,
since it ends
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