Today's
New York Times has an advertisement by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art thanking "its generous corporate sponsors." Who knows why I studied the listing so thoroughly but I noticed that
Deloitte was the only corporate name with added closing punctuation, as in "Deloitte." with the period. Well, the period is there in the upper left corner of their home page:
Son of a gun. Then I went to the board meeting of the
Bakers Bridge Historical Association where we talked (argued) about whether it was Bakers or Baker's or Bakers' Bridge (an early name for Alfred Station, New York). We also talked about adding an Oxford comma to the text of the proposed historical marker. I think I've had it with punctuation for this afternoon/evening.
By the way, someone did mention today in the Troublesome Catalogers and Magical Metadata Fairies group in Facebook that they had done their first cataloging record without adding terminal punctuation in MARC fields according to the new guidelines from PCC. Sadly, it only deals with description. Someday, it will also apply to access points. The report of the PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group is available here:
http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/isbdmarc2016.pdf
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