Re: [RDA-L] Dealing with all cap 245 titles

2011-01-12 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Hal Cain said: In fact, all lowercase would be better for legibility, and just as simple to do. Genius son Matt has already agreed (on import by automation) to reduce all capital 245s to all lower case, with the exception of the first letter after 245$a and 245 =$b. Cataloguers will have to

Re: [RDA-L] Dealing with all cap 245 titles

2011-01-12 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Another reason for not using all cap titles I just heard about is libraries which use all cap brief acquisition records to indicate materials on order. Son Matt says: PERL is very powerful at both analyzing strings and changing them based on conditions, so one can get a bit fancier than merely

Re: [RDA-L] Dealing with all cap 245 titles

2011-01-12 Thread Lisa Hatt
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Another reason for not using all cap titles I just heard about is libraries which use all cap brief acquisition records to indicate materials on order. We have some (legacy) all caps titles in our browsing books collection. However, I don't think this