Short-form of the unit title, excluding any unit date, as an instance
        of :class:`~eulxml.xmlmap.eadmap.UnitTitle` . Can be used with formatting
        anywhere the full form of the unittitle can be used.

def short(self):
        '''Short-form of the unit title, excluding any unit date, as an instance
        of :class:`~eulxml.xmlmap.eadmap.UnitTitle` . Can be used with formatting
        anywhere the full form of the unittitle can be used.'''
        # if there is no unitdate to remove, just return the current object
        if not self.unitdate:
            return self

        # preserve any child elements (e.g., title or emph)
        # initialize a unittitle with a *copy* of the current node
        ut = UnitTitle(node=deepcopy(self.node))
        # remove the unitdate node and return
        ut.node.remove(ut.unitdate.node)
        return ut