Richard's question leads right into the heart of something which has
been puzzling me for some time.
If I understand RDA correctly, it would be wrong to use the relationship
designator "author" in an ordinary added entry field here, because it
can only be used for somebody who is a creator. The four editors,
however, are not creators of the work as a whole (the anthology), but
only of their own contributions in the book. So I think, "author" cannot
be applied to them with respect to the work as a whole. The only
possibility would be to record a relationship to a related work, i.e. to
the essay (or whatever it is) included in the collection. By the way,
I'm not sure about the situation in MARC: I assume it is possible to
record relationship designators in a name/title entry and/or in a 505 note?
The same thing is true for my favourite title pages of collections,
which show something like "with contributions by" and a list of names.
According to the German RAK (and also AACR2, I believe), there would
have been an obligatory added entry under the first named person in such
a list. In RDA I believe this is no longer possible, as the authors of
the essays do not have a direct relationship to the collection at all.
With respect to the collection as a whole, they are nothing - neither
creator, nor other person associated with a work, nor contributor. So
there can't be a direct relationship to them. The only way to make an
added entry for somebody who has contributed to the collection is to
record a relationship to a related work.
I can see the reasoning behind it, but I still feel RDA is overly
complicated here.
Heidrun
Richard Baumgarten wrote:
I am working on an anthology of local literature. I am listing all
four editors. All of them have some of their writings in the book. I
am not creating a Contents note because of the sheer size that it
would be. Should I just use the relationship designator of editor or
use both author and editor?
Richard Baumgarten
Cataloger
Johnson County Library
P.O. Box 2901
Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66201-1301
(913) 495-2454
baumgart...@jocolibrary.org
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Faculty of Information and Communication
Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
