I think that LCC-PCC PS is an option for omitting more than three names. There should be an alternative for omitting how many names. Apparently cataloging agencies can have a choice. Once a local decision has been made, it should be consistently applied across records.
I am learning from different perspectives. Appreciate it. Thanks. Joan Wang Illinois Heartland Library System On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller < wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de> wrote: > Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: > > ****AACR2 also says “not named in a statement of responsibility” but its > application extended to situations when all but the first named in a > transcribed statement of responsibility were omitted.**** > > > Thanks for this information; I didn't know that. > > Nonetheless, the idea doesn't really appeal to me. In the RAK rules, there > is a very basic principle which says that notes are normally used only to > give information which is not apparent from the rest of the bibliographic > description. I think this is a sound idea. > > True, if we choose not to transcribe a name in a s-o-r, then this > information isn't apparent from the rest of the bibliographic description, > so we could give it in a note. But I'd still say it would be better to > amend the s-o-r instead of using a note as some sort of "workaround". > > Heidrun > > > > -- > --------------------- > Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. > Stuttgart Media University > Faculty of Information and Communication > Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germanywww.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi > > -- Zhonghong (Joan) Wang, Ph.D. Cataloger -- CMC Illinois Heartland Library System (Edwardsville Office) 6725 Goshen Road Edwardsville, IL 62025 618.656.3216x409 618.656.9401Fax
