<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">And now I <i>must</i> apologize for a <i>very</i> recent rant, since you all prove to be even wiser than I already thought.</font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY<br>PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-3384 : <a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" target="_blank">RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU</a> </font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">I apparently promised the DCRM(MS) group to look up some things and talk to some DCRM editors about the style of language in the note field, but figure a discussion in a wider forum would be more interesting. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The more time goes on, the readier I am to use full, normal sentences in notes, instead of the traditional abbreviated sentence structure that grew out of the space-saving milieu of the card. Not that I advocate verbosity or chattiness, but sentences with verbs and articles are so much easier to read and understand than those without. One also can't help but think that the RDA no-abbreviation approach will spread to the idea of not just abbreviating words, but sentences as well. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">How about the rest of you? What style do you use when formulating notes? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0070C0"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0070C0">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003<br>
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