Roy Tennant wrote:
> We have more anachronistic practices in our catalogs than I think we
> fully appreciate.

Surely *the* most anachronistic exercise is ISBD punctuation.  This was
stupid in the original version of MARC and makes even less sense over
the years.  Or there's the various ways Slavko was identifying that
people have represented (and indexed) ISBNs over the years.

Why do we have to do so much "normalization" before we can match
elements in two or more MARC records?

<sigh/>

Walter Lewis
Halton Hills