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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I agree, it does seem to me bizarre that RDA has “compiler” as a relationship designator for this, but at least it is clearly under “creator” (i.e., parallel
with “author”), meaning under AACR2 anyway this person would have been given main entry. I’d just as soon we use “author” for this relationship, especially since, as you note, the term “compiler” is much more commonly used in English to mean what the RDA relationship
designator “editor of compilation” means.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">By the way, with the 2014 RDA revision “editor of compilation” will be done away with, merged with “editor”. I think the thinking was the disctinction has been
confusing and the benefit of making the distinction not all that great. But as you point out, now there will be continuing confustion with “compiler”, which is bizarrely not used for people who compile things like anthologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Robert L. Maxwell<br>
Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
(801)422-5568 <br>
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"We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><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""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathie Coblentz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Form of citation - 510 field<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM, <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-request@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-request@lib.byu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Re: Form of citation - 510 field (Robert Maxwell)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oksana,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Authors of bibliographies routinely refer to themselves as editors or compilers on the title page.
But if you think about what they in fact did, they wrote the bibliography. That is, they are the author (a.k.a. creator in RDA terms). They are neither editing somebody else’s work nor compiling a group of works by other persons. They are creating an original
work (the bibliography).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
<a href="tel:%28801%29422-5568" target="_blank">(801)422-5568</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Yet RDA, in Appendix I.2.1, specifies the use of "compiler" as the appropriate relationship term for the creator of a bibliography:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"compiler: A person, family, or corporate body responsible for creating a new work (e.g., a bibliography, a directory) by selecting, arranging, aggregating, and editing data, information, etc."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is apparently why the designator "compiler" isn't available for the situation in which it is most likely to be used by actual human beings, to go with the name of the person who has assembled stories, poems or essays into an anthology.
That has to be the awkward "editor of compilation." (See Appendix I.3.1.)<br>
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By the way, couldn't "selecting, arranging, aggregating, and editing data, information, etc." be used to describe the activity of any author, at least any author not working in purely imaginative literature? And even they could be said to be selecting and arranging
data, I suppose, if only from their own thoughts and dreams.<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kathie Coblentz, Rare Materials Cataloger</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Collections Strategy/Special Formats Processing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">New York, NY 10018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:kathiecoblentz@nypl.org" target="_blank">kathiecoblentz@nypl.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My opinions, not NYPL's<o:p></o:p></p>
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