<font><font face="georgia,serif">"Latinate" is surely too Latinate. I do think that our language of cataloging ought to be Anglo-Saxon. Then we could spend a lot of our extra time learning that, too--those of us not lucky enough to have read English at Oxford back in the day (of which unlucky number I am a member).</font></font><div>
<font><font face="georgia,serif"><br clear="all"></font></font><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 Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Will Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evans@bostonathenaeum.org" target="_blank">evans@bostonathenaeum.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">If, under RDA, we are to cease abbreviations, how are folks planning to spell out “T.p. verso” in note fields?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Some thoughts:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Title page verso</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Title-page verso</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Title page, verso</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Title-page, verso</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Verso of title page</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Verso of title-page</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Or is verso to arcane or Latinate for today’s end-user?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Suggestions?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will Evans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Chief Rare Materials Catalog Librarian</span></p>
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