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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Not a rare materials question, but I hate to bother Autocat with this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and am hoping someone knows off the top of their head</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. Where is the instruction to put a comma after the penultimate name/word in a list?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">E.g.:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Title page: Marlowe, Shakespeare et Webster</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Transcription: Marlowe,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">S</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">hakespeare, et Webster</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I also seem to remember that there is a different instruction for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">British</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">cataloging agencies</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">; they would not include the comma. Any help or advice would be much appreciated.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.<BR>
Head of Cataloging<BR>
Folger Shakespeare Library<BR>
201 East Capitol St., S.E.<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20003<BR>
202.675-0369<BR>
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