Roy asked:
>> I agree with Karen that publisher should be transcribed to allow
>> correct matching of record with item, not a controlled field.
>
>Why must it be one or the other?
I remember Lubetsky's objection to redundancy. I would not want to
clutter the display with two different forms of the publisher's name,
or even worse, the same form given twice.
In MARC, SLC uses 9XX for alternate forms. Don't know what Bibframe
will have.
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