Adger Williams wrote:
Aren't conventional collective titles really Form/Genre headings?
(Poems. Selections, vs. Essays Selections, vs. Works Selections)
Would they not serve their function less confusingly if we treated
them that way?
Quite. They could be seen as attributes of the work and recorded in RDA
elements 7.2 and 7.3 - in addition to the "ordinary" title of the work
for the compilation/collection (RDA element 6.2).
If this was consistently applied, it would give us the possibility to find
A) all editions of a certain compilation/collection (making use of the
title of the work)
B) all compilations/collections of a certain type (making use of the
attributes of the work)
And everybody would be happy :-)
Heidrun
FWIW, my institution has been removed CCTs from LC records ever since
the abandonment of the AACR2 rule about "distinctive titles". Very
seldom does it require more than a moment's thought.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Bernhard Eversberg
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Am 20.12.2013 13 <tel:20.12.2013%2013>:37, schrieb Heidrun
Wiesenmüller:
I think the interesting point to note is that not everything which
consists of several works by the same person is in fact a
"compilation
of works". Rather, in the case of...
This is the sort of casuistry we've never envied AACR users for.
Let's get serious about the A aspect in RDA and treat titles as
such, as titles, always, because end-users will always search for
those titles because they find them cited as such, and noch
concocted and perturbed in ways they'd never imagine.
Add conventional collected titles at leisure (if you find any),
or rather use machine-actionable codes wherever possible, but
leave the
titles alone.
If we can't get away from the old spirit of cataloging that was
based on unit descriptions on 3x5 cards and on filing rules that were
not even part of AACR, then RDA is really a waste of time and will
create more nuisance than usefulness.
B.Eversberg
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