[DCRM-L] Full vs abbreviated language in notes

[Allison Rich]

Hello all:

I will never abbreviate things like "t.p." or "h.t." but I do tend to 
have a little more of a terse style, leaving out articles and sometimes 
verbs.
But notes, like the below, I never abbreviate:

"Includes information on Jesuit missions in Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, 
the Philippines, Japan and China; also includes brief biographies of 
important Jesuits and descriptions of Jesuit colleges"

There is no reason to impose "libraryese" on researchers when you can 
very easily spell out some of the more common abbreviations known to us 
cataloguers.
It makes for a more elegant record, too. But there is no need to go into 
verbosity when one can state things in a more succinct style.

~Allison

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Allison Rich
Rare Books Cataloguer
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
Allison_Rich at brown.edu

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