[DCRM-L] relator terms as part of a name/title heading

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Thanks, Dan. Your response, in addition to a private message, makes me
think I haven't been clear enough. I'm not talking about putting an
added entry for a person on another record, but rather making an added
entry to a work. It might be a 773 linking entry for host items, or may
simply be a 700 related work name/title. Or even a 600 name/title
subject heading. 

Perhaps another way of thinking about it is how would we create a
name/title authority record for a particular work for which we've
entered under an author with a relator term. When I think about it that
way, it seems obvious to me that the relator term, which in fact is not
part of the person's heading, should drop off. But imagine that our
opacs really worked properly and collocated works according to their
work headings (by which I mean the main entry plus title, or uniform
title main entry). This discrepancy between the way the person appeared
on the main work and how he appeared in a name/title added entry would
prevent appropriate collocation. 

____________________________ 
Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. 
Head of Cataloging 
Folger Shakespeare Library 
djleslie at folger.edu 
http://www.folger.edu <http://www.folger.edu/>  

-----Original Message-----
From: Rettberg, Dan [mailto:drettberg at huc.edu] 
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Subject: RE: [DCRM-L] relator terms as part of a name/title heading



Deborah--

Unless I misunderstand you, the whole point of a relator term is to
distinguish that person as an editor, publisher, printer, etc. I would
leave them in place so that someone searching for "Jones, John, \e
printer" can access all such separately from "Jones, John".

Dan Rettberg
Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer
Klau Library
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Cincinnati, Ohio

drettberg at huc.edu



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Subject: [DCRM-L] relator terms as part of a name/title heading

At the Folger, we're using relator terms with 100 main entry headings
for our manuscripts. So what happens when we want to link to the heading
for that work in another record? Do we retain the ?e?

My inclination is to say no, but then that creates a discrepancy between
the heading for a work as it appears on the record for the work itself
and as it appears linked from other records.

Thanks,
Deborah

__________________________
Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
Head of Cataloging
Folger Shakespeare Library
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Washington, D.C. 20003
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