At 04:38 PM 11/29/2005, Adam Schiff wrote:
>I should have explained in my previous question that the reason this has
>come up is that we are going to establish a new heading for a different
>Swan Lake that will also include "after Ivanov and Petipa, M" as part of
>the qualifier and the question arose, do we leave the period off so that
>it is in synch with all the other headings already in the authority file,
>or do we include the period? My inclination is to include the period and
>fix all the others that lack it, but I'd like to see if everyone out there
>agrees that a period is required and should have been included in these
>headings.
I would treat these as I would any other badly-constructed heading: fix it
but don't follow it.
Gary L. Strawn, Authorities Librarian, etc.
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