Dear Barry, As a NACO cataloger you may go ahead and correct a NAR that has been incorrectly established. In this case you would invoke LCRI 22.1B
Persons Treated in the Same Manner as Authors In determining the name by which a person is commonly known, the rule distinguishes between "authors" and others. For purposes of simplification, generally use the approach applied to authors also to 1) persons who work in a context other than that of writing text, e.g., a painter, a sculptor, a performer whose name appears in a formal statement found in the item (e.g., statement of responsibility) 2) composers, regardless of whether their names appear in a statement of responsibility or not. So you would establish the heading based on the form of the heading that appears in the chief source of information. Because his catalogs appear in two or more languages you would need to look at A2 and LCRI 22.3b1 and make your decision on the form based on those. I would be happy to take a look at it when you are done. Best, Heidi 010 n 50007194 040 DLC ǂb eng ǂc DLC ǂd DLC ǂd OCoLC 1001 Benn, Bencjon, ǂd 1905- 4001 Rabinovitch, Bencjon, ǂd 1905- 4000 Benn, ǂd 1905- 4001 בען, בנציון, ǂd ־1905 667 Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. 667 Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. 670 His Ben, 1948. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Walfish" <barry.walf...@utoronto.ca> To: "mail=heb-n...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <heb-naco@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:20:29 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Benn Dear Safranim, This is for Joan or someone else at LC who deals with Name headings. Would it be possible to get the heading Benn, Bencjon, 1905- changed to Benn, 1905-1989. The Jewish artist in question, Benn, originally from Poland, used the name Benn throughout his career. I don't believe there is a single publication or work of art by him that has the name Bencjon on it. The EJ2 simply lists him as Benn. Since he's an artist, other reference works may be called into play, but it should be obvious that the LC form is not the commonly used form of the name, and its use is perpetuating this distortion of the artist's public persona. Thanks, Barry Barry Dov Walfish, Ph.D. Judaica Specialist University of Toronto Libraries Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 Canada -- Heidi G. Lerner Hebraica/Judaica Cataloger Metadata Development Unit Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 e-mail: ler...@stanford.edu ph: 650-725-9953 fax: 650-725-1120
