Hank,

It was not uncommon in earlier days for an 'equals' sign to be used
between words to link them ... if a newspaper cataloged based on the
earliest copy available used that mark, the cataloger would also have
used that double hyphen as transcribed from the piece for description
... The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City, e.g., still harkens
back.

Go Gators,

Bob Dowd
UF class of 1981
New York State Library
Albany, NY

>>> WilYoun@UFLIB.UFL.EDU 9/15/2006 2:34 PM >>>
            Howdy folks,

            I have a question about newspaper cataloging (which I have
never done before)

            I have run across several newspapers with an "equal" sign
in
the 245 (Example: OCLC# 27730702, The Daytona gazette=news)

            Every time I see a title like this there is always a 246
without the equal sign and usually a 246 with a dash.

            I have a couple of theories about what this is, one being
instances of morning and evening papers like the Atlanta Journal and
the
Atlanta Constitution used to be (we always called it the Atlanta
Journal
Constitution back home ... no one ever talked about one without
mentioning the other).  My other theory is that the equal sign and the
dash are right next to each other on the keyboard and someone could
have
added the 246 with a dash later.

            Any other ideas?  Or better yet, does anyone know a valid
reason we should not change this in the catalog?  We are giving all
our
newspapers on microfilm call numbers here at UF, so I am having to
edit
all the bib records anyway.

William C. (Hank) Young

University of Florida

Smathers Library East, 3rd floor