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That is a serial record.  RDA 2.3.1.4 says, �Transcribe a title as it appears on the source of information�.  A little further down in 2.3.1.4, there is a section named Exceptions.  One of the exceptions is:  �If a title of a serial includes a date, name, number, etc., that varies from issue to issue, omit this date, name, number, etc.  Use a mark of omission (�) to indicate such an omission�.

 

A similar rule existed under AACR2.

 

                                                                                Steve McDonald

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Subject: [PCCLIST] Mark of omission in title transcription

 

Hi.  I�m wondering whether a mark of omission should be included in a title transcription.

 

Please take a look at CONSER record 2013269609.  The title is transcribed as

 

Cultura Poli�tica de la Democracia en Chile y en las Ame�ricas, ...

 

I am really doubtful about that mark of omission.  (The capitalization is actually wrong also�it doesn�t match the source�but that isn�t my point at the moment.)  The mark of omission stands for a date.  The date is not grammatically connected to the title phrase at all, though there is a comma between the phrase and the date, so I guess they are connected in a way.  The source looks like

 

Cultura Poli�tica de la Democracia en Chile

y en las Ame�ricas, 2012:

Hacia la igualdad de oportunidades

 

The third line is a subtitle and based on the publisher�s history will not be consistent.

 

Would you use a mark of omission, or simply end the title at �Ame�ricas?�  Thanks.

 

Pete Wilson

Heard Library

Vanderbilt Univ.