It depends on which OPAC. If you are looking for a hyphenated work in
Voyager, you have to put the hypen in. Otherwise you will not find what you
are looking for.
--Bryan M. Carson
Andy Grossman wrote:
>
> Yes, but as a librarian you must know that OPACs
> mostly don't know how to deal with hyphens and
> generate false results in their presence. No wonder
> the profession seems to be abandoning them...
>
> (And yes, I know that's probably not what you meant.)
>
> Andy Grossman
> University College London, SLAIS
>
> --- John Pedini <jpedini@socialaw.com> wrote:
> > Hope no one minds terribly if I make a comment on a
> > subject discussed at
> > length already, but I missed the exchange of ideas
> > on Friday.
> >
> > I can forgive the unnecessary apostrophes, the
> > improper use of subject
> > case, errant past participles, conversational
> > exposition that has to
> > pass as language, but what I truly mourn is the
> > loss of the hyphen.
> >
> > Casual communication has endangered the use of a
> > simple symbol that
> > alerts the reader of nouns with multiple modifiers,
> > often obscuring the
> > message.
> >
> > A very small lapse, perhaps, but one that erodes a
> > time honored
> > tradition of well intended behavior for the sake of
> > high minded people
> > who think they're up to date and state of the art.
> >
> > P.S. Yes, I have better things to do, but I'm at
> > lunch right now.
> >
> >
> > John Pedini
> > Director of Media Services
> > Social Law Library
> > 1200 Court House
> > Boston, MA 02108
> > P:617.523.0018 x337
> > F:617.523.2458
> >
> >
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> > " We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we
> > want to go forward."
> >
> > - J.
> > Danforth Quayle
> >
> >
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