What is really missing from that LC record is this subject heading (which
should probably have been created):
650 _0 Pawnee (Ind. : Imaginary place)
The only subject heading there is 630 00 Parks and recreation (Television
program), and I don't think this books is ABOUT the television program.
Adam Schiff
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Arakawa, Steven wrote:
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:54:34 +0000
From: "Arakawa, Steven" <steven.arak...@yale.edu>
Reply-To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
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To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA name authorities |c (Fictitious character)
When training, I like to use the LC cataloging for ISBN 9781401310646 (LCCN
2011015148). The record was cataloged following AACR2, but it?s easy to see how
a fictitious character AAP would be used in RDA. This is clearly not a
pseudonym situation.
Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metada Services
Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203) 432-8286 steven.arak...@yale.edu<mailto:steven.arak...@yale.edu>
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Jack Wu
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 9:12 AM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA name authorities |c (Fictitious character)
I must thank Mac and others for taking time to explain to me RDA's decision to
treat ALL fictitious characters equally, Nevertheless, I also have much less
difficulty accepting the change from Clemens to Twain than accepting the
authorship of Pooh, $c the Bear; or Snoopy, $c the Dog; or Kermit, $c the Frog.
While one may just dress less formally, to have a bear, a dog, or a frog utter
anything but growls, and groans, is hard to grasp.
Perhaps the relationship designator of $e author should here be changed to $e
Dubious author, or perhaps $e attributed name, or $e Pretended author. Perhaps
$c (fictional non-person), $c (fictional animal) can be added to $c (fictional
character).
It is less likely the patron will fail to associate Milnes with Pooh, or
Schultz with Snoopy, or know that Kermit is just a puppet from previous
encounters with similar books, than to accept, or assume that Pooh, Snoopy, and
Kermit actually wrote anything . Such pretense will not make catalogers,
cataloging, or the cataloging code more intelligent or more intelligible than
they are not.
Jack
Jack Wu
Franciscan University of Steubenville
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