[DCRM-L] Latin abbreviations and RDA

[Elizabeth O'Keefe]

The beast flesh is creeping back ... . Time to burn all the animal (I
mean Latin) out of it.

Liz O'Keefe 

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>>> "Deborah J. Leslie" <DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu> 4/27/2012 12:00 PM >>>
Friday chuckle:

I don't want to bother the larger cataloging community with this, but
working my way through RDA, I've noticed a delicious irony in RDA text
vis-à-vis its attitude about Latin abbreviations in the cataloging
record.

"The term work refers to a distinct intellectual or artistic creation
(i.e., the intellectual or artistic content)."


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