Punctuation with open dates before relator terms

Gerald R Wager dcrb-l@lib.byu.edu
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:40:50 -0500


Apologies to everyone.  I meant to bring this up at ALA. 

LC and MARC 21 follow the second example (space following hyphen and
preceding delimiter).  See 600 p. 3, Nixon example, in USMARC
Bibliographic.
								Jerry

Part of forwarded message:
> I like having the instructions on punctuation and how to handle one
>person/body with multiple functions. Punctuation for personal names
with
>open dates, however, I have seen several different ways in bib
records:
>
>	Acker, Susan,$d1946-$ebook designer.
>	Acker, Susan,$d1946- $ebook designer.
>	Acker, Susan,$1946- ,$ebook designer. (as you have it)