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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#0070C0">I strive for a balance between conciseness and readability (or tell myself to do so), though I find that I’m trending toward complete sentences. Ultimately, it depends on what I’m cataloging. Artists’ book are particularly challenging to the point that I find myself spelling out words with proscribed abbreviations, such as page and illustration, for the sake of clarity. Sacrilege I know!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah J. Leslie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List<br><b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Full vs abbreviated language in notes</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> </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? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0070C0"> </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>
<a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu"><span style="color:#0070C0">djleslie@folger.edu</span></a></span> <span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0070C0">| 202.675-0369 | <a href="http://www.folger.edu/"><span style="color:#0070C0">http://www.folger.edu</span></a> </span> <span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0070C0"></span></p>
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