I sympathise with the views expressed - but it seems to me more important to
get Innopac to sort it out than to cause chaos or potential chaos as we move
towards greater and greater cooperation. E.g. we in CURL have to agree to a
minmum standard, based on AACR2 and UK or US MARC. I.e. we have to agree not
to put in our own punctuation.

Putting in punctuation is no problem so long as individual libraries remain
independent of everyone else, but it still seems a bit silly to do too much
refinement over what is essentially a technical problem which we should
press Innopac to sort.

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Glasgow University Library
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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask]
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of D.K. Williams
Sent: 27 April 2000 16:51
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Punctuation


> I agree about the lack of punctuation, which makes the OPAC look
illiterate as well e.g. subtitles run straight on from titles. For new
records, we are inserting our own punctuation, to make the whole thing look
more presentable.
Kay Williams

> Has anyone else come across problems associated with subfields in Innopac
> not generating punctuation?
>
> We would like to compile a file of selected records from our database, but
> are having difficulty with the lack of punctuation within the records;
> having catalogued by UKMARC under a system that supplied punctuation, we
> never  inserted it, and records now extracted from the catalogue leave
much
> to be desired from this point of view.
>
> Are we alone in our frustrations?
>
> Margaret Blackburn
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> Margaret Blackburn
> Head of Special Collections Cataloguing, and Projects
> University of London Library
> Senate House
> Malet Street
> London WC1E 7HU
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> Tel:  (44) 171 862 8472
> Fax:  (44) 171 862 8480
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>


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