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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">This issue, in the RDA context, has been the subject of a short thread on the PCC list this week, the essence of which I copy below. The most pertinent guidelines in RDA come
at 2.2.4 (</span><a href="http://access.rdatoolkit.org/2.2.4.html">http://access.rdatoolkit.org/2.2.4.html</a>)
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">and 2.20.2 (</span><a href="http://access.rdatoolkit.org/2.20.2.html">http://access.rdatoolkit.org/2.20.2.html</a>)<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Francis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:PCCLIST@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas, Craig<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 06, 2013 7:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PCCLIST@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PCCLIST] Question Regarding Brackets for Devised Titles of Collection-Level Records in RDA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is my first message to the PCCList, so here goes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve noticed that collection-level records in OCLC which are cataloged in RDA have cataloger-supplied titles that are bracketed (e.g., OCLC #696427383—a PCC record). I’m wondering if I am misreading what RDA/LC-PCC PS’s have to say concerning
this topic:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">RDA 2.2.4 instructs one to use a note, coding, or square brackets (etc.) to indicate that information is supplied from a source outside the resource. Exceptionally, for resources that don’t normally carry identifying information (e.g.,
photos, collections, naturally-occurring objects), one does not indicate that the information came from outside the resource. The corresponding LC-PCC PS prescribes the use of square brackets, but the PS applies the exception for resources that do not normally
carry identifying information. I interpret this to mean that you would not bracket the devised title in a collection-level record since the resource it describes falls into the exceptional category.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, LC-PCC PS 2.20.2 states that a note identifying the source from which a title is taken is core, where applicable. RDA 2.20.2.3 also instructs that one provide a note if the title is not from a title page or title screen. One
of the examples given is: “Title devised by cataloguer.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So my interpretation of all of this is that one would not bracket the devised title in a collection-level record, but that the standard note, “Title devised by cataloger”, would be provided instead.
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<p class="MsoNormal">It could be that the records I’m seeing represent a holdover from AACR2 practice; or, my interpretations may just simply be off base, in which case I welcome any corrections.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Craig Thomas <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Craig Thomas<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR">Email: </span></i><a href="mailto:cthomas@fas.harvard.edu"><i><span lang="FR">cthomas@fas.harvard.edu</span></i></a><i><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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