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Ian Fairclough <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Is this just legacy punctuation from earlier codes, ones that endowed > punctuation with bibliographic significance? Perhaps such usage is > documented in the minutes of a committee somewhere. > Briefly looking over the old "Red Book" and AACR1 and the 1978 edition of AACR2, the practices appear to be these: - if a term appears with a name in sources at hand and/or in reference sources, then it would appear after a comma when the rules asked for the term to be applied - for a term made up by a cataloger, it would appear in parentheses As for the Other Designation element, parentheses are mentioned in LC's response to the British Library's proposal for the element: <http://www.rda-jsc.org/working2.html#bl-4> This is also illustrated in the minutes from the Nov. 2013 JSC meeting (see especially pages 47-48): <http://www.rda-jsc.org/working2.html#min> -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex Coordinator University of Minnesota Digitization, Cataloging & 15 Andersen Library Metadata Education (DCME) 222 21st Avenue South Phone: 612-624-0805 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439 <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/> "Experience is by industry achieved // And perfected by the swift course of time." -- Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act I, scene iii