[RDA-L] Victoria

2013-03-26 Thread Ian Fairclough
RDA-L readers, Thanks to Adam Schiff for his correction.  All is now clear - perhaps.  Once again, I feel like I've been booby-trapped.  Like many aspects of contemporary cataloging, mine was an error just waiting to happen. DCM Z1 370 has: "Use the established form of the geographic place nam

Re: [RDA-L] Victoria

2013-03-26 Thread Adam L. Schiff
Actually if you are recording the state of Victoria in the 370, current policy and RDA instructions tell you to use the abbreviations for places in Appendix B.11, which means that you would record the form that would be used if the place were being added as a qualifier: Vic. Recording Victori

[RDA-L] Victoria

2013-03-26 Thread Ian Fairclough
RDA-L readers, A little more grist for the mill.  While recording Victoria in field 370 of a NAR, I spent a little time looking for the qualifier.  Turns out that the Australian state doesn't have one, see n  79046608.   The conclusion: it, and it alone, is the unqualified "Victoria." So, perh