Re: [LM_NET] Hit: Destiny cataloging

[Barbara Braxton <barbara.288@BIGPOND.COM>]

If I were in your school district then you could probably blame me for doing this - 
because I
deliberately capitalised the appropriate words in titles on our OPAC entries, 
editing any that were
automatically downloaded for consistency.  Why?  Because we are trying to teach our 
students when
and where to use capital letters and titles of books, songs and so forth  are 
included in this.  So
I chose to set a model for them to see, which they did every time they used Library 
Enquiry.

Providing a model that students could use in their writing, including their 
bibliographies  as they
learned to do this, was more important than retaining some cataloguing rule for 
which I could find
no reason or justification.  In fact, I imagine it was helpful because I often saw 
punctuation tests
that asked the children to capitalise titles.

Guess I'm a heretic because, to me,  "that's the way it is always done" is not a 
valid reason for
not changing.
Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
AUSTRALIA

E. barbara.288@bigpond.com
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