Q: How will this affect our OPACs, if any?
A: Some examples. The abbreviations we are talking about that are no longer necessary are found in area 4 (spell out the larger jurisdiction) and area 5 (spell out pages and illustrations). Our users will have a better idea of what we are trying to say in our records. They do not understand the latin s.l. (sine loco) and s.n. (sine nomine), but when we can state “no place of publication” and “no publisher name” instead, this is much clearer. Moreover, the other big change for no more abbreviations is with area 2. We can now spell out the edition statement as we see it on the source.
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