Making friends with The Manuals Pt. 2

Well, it's Friday afternoon and there's not much else for it - it's me against the manuals again.

Ok so where were we up to? Ah yes - numbers, initials and abbreviations.

• Acronyms are treated as if they are words when making cutters (e.g ASEAN)
• Russian author names are treated differently. Crazy Russians.
• Special biography rule: If the main entry is the title, use the Cutter for the biographee and don't add a title mark. (i.e Only one life: the Peter Crofts story would be C941). And I thought I understood biographies!
• AND, biography marks are used for catalogues of art exhibitions by one artist. The cutter comes from the artist and biography mark from the author. (Art catalogues are not my friend at this stage.)
• Title marks for translations should use the original language.
• Edition marks aren't used for novels (800s).

That's about all the interesting bits I can find so far...only four manuals to go...and then there's the Dewey...oh the Dewey....

This is a tired Friday afternoon Alice signing off - until next week!