Hahn, Harvey wrote:
>I've argued the non-need of ISBD in MARC records
> repeatedly in cataloging forums to no avail. Oh, well...
The "response" to those arguments is generally that it's too late...
that we already have gazillions of records with the punctuation in them,
our systems are written with that in mind, and our catalogers are
trained to put it in. Of course, all that does is condemn us to an
unnecessary expense for the foreseeable future.
Interestingly, representatives of the German national library have been
attending MARBI meetings lately, and I believe that is because they are
thinking of switching from their own bibliographic record format to
MARC. I'm going to be very interested to see how this particular issue
gets resolved, since they are not accustomed to keying the punctuation
in their current format.
kc
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