[DCRB-L] DCRM 7C14

Hillyard, Brian dcrb-l@lib.byu.edu
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:26:50 +0100


"Accordingly, give references as illustrated below.  Begin the note with the
word "References" and a colon."

Reading through 7C14 it struck me that this instruction to use "References:"
is one of those leftovers from card-cataloguing days (you could say that
MARC21 510 subfield a doesn't accommodate it; and I won't mention indexing
problems).  We could change it to a recommendation that any non-MARC format
display of the  record should be headed in this way, but as DCRM isn't about
OPAC display I think it would be better to drop this instruction altogether.

Brian 

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