[DCRM-L] 6JSC/LC/32: Revision to instructions for devised titles in RDA 2.3.2.11

[Christine DeZelar-Tiedman]

I agree with Liz's response to your first point. Still trying to wrap my
head around the second issue.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Mascaro,Michelle J <mjm125 at uakron.edu>
wrote:

> Francis brings up an interesting point about redundancy between devised
> title proper and devised title of work.
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> I do not think that option B is completely crazy.  There is merit to
> keeping title proper strictly as a transcription field for identification
> of manifestations.  (As a case in point…at my institution, we have had
> several discussions about devising titles for digital images that lack
> formal titles; with some arguing we are misrepresenting the object by
> supplying a title.  In the end, the uselessness of having thousands of
> images titled “untitled” swayed everyone to the necessity of devising
> titles.)
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> The difficulty lies in that we have a  tradition of treating the title
> proper as the title.  A lot of our current systems do not properly handle
> situations where the title proper and  preferred title differ. (We
> periodically get requests from Reference to turn off 130s and 240s because
> they confuse patrons.)   For that reason, I am not quite ready to support
> making the tittle proper a field that could potentially be empty and am
> leaning slightly towards option A.
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> Michelle Mascaro
> Associate Professor of Bibliography
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> Special Collections Cataloger and Coordinator, Cataloging Services
> University Libraries
> The University of Akron
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