J. McRee Elrod wrote: There were no main entry changes for monographs as dramatic as the dropping of the rule of three.
For me, the most difficult earlier change was entry for serials and series. I had spent years with "Journal of chemistry" being entered under title, and "Journal of the Chemical Association" being entered under the association. -------------------------------- Sorry Mac, but I would disagree. The changes incumbent with respect to: - form of entry for pseudonyms, - form of entry of corporate bodies, - editors as main entry, and - corporate bodies as main entry were substantial. I am blessedly too young to have been involved in the actual changes instituted by AACR2, but can still see the after effects in the remnants of the card catalogs I have seen. And I have run across the literature from that era regarding the formidable questions surrounding what to do with card catalogs as that divide was crossed. The rule of three is an intellectual and pragmatic construct on the part of catalogers that I maintain very few users care about or for. I certainly would never have noticed it in the years preceding my cataloging education. If I had, I would likely have wondered, why isn't the author in the same position as the authors of other books?, why aren't all the authors listed? (And yes, I would have made those observations eventually. I still remember the distrust I felt over seeing a full statement of responsibility on new cards in the catalog -- at that point, I far preferred the truncated versions rendered by earlier codes, which better matched the citation format I needed for bibliographies. As a second career, it took a while to get to cataloging, but obviously the die was cast early if I was making those kinds of distinctions.) John F. Myers, Catalog Librarian Schaffer Library, Union College 807 Union St. Schenectady NY 12308 518-388-6623 mye...@union.edu
