In article <4f093f5d.4070...@hdm-stuttgart.de>, you wrote:
>Actually, the thing Mac and I disagree about (but haven't had time to go
>into more deeply yet) is the question of main entry as such.
Main entry under creator seems a tradition worth keeping:
-in order to maintain consistency with scholarly citation (including
returning to compiler main entry);
-in order to colocate by author (particularly literary authors) in
single entry bibliographies;
-to maintain correlation between main entry and Cutter to colocate
authors' works on the shelf of the same literary genre or on the same
topic (apart from criticism and biography);
-out of consideration for technology have not libraries, who will not
have the linkages proposed to allow meaningful displays.
Moving to title main entry for series seems a good idea to me. A
series under author duplicates the main entry for the single issue,
and authors of series do change.
__ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca)
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