<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I don't see any improvement in the proposed revision, as well as further drawbacks, and find the AACR instructions generally more coherent. The question isn't a matter of typography, but has to do with whether the information is useful in a display which includes both the title proper and other title information, but not the statement of responsibility.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">If the noun phrase characterizes the work or expression as a whole, then it ought to be associated with the title proper as, well, <i>other</i> title information. If the noun phrase has to do with the nature of the responsibility of the person or persons named, then it's part of the statement of responsibility. There will <i>always</i> be grey areas, but with such guidelines in mind there will be a tendency to coherent if not always invariable results in the work of cataloguers.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">The revision to regard typographical layout--which may have much more to do with visual design than with intellectual content--<i>does</i> result in intellectual incoherence. If the same words are differently disposed in another manifestation, then the 245s won't match.</div>
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