Kevin is absolutely correct. Library users inform me that geographic
qualifiers for some corporate bodies are incorrect because I omitted a critical
part of the name when I created the AAP. For example, a few patrons have
pointed out that a particular cemetery is NOT in the city of Saint
We came across another issue with putting place names in the 370 in the form
used in a qualifier. There is a place established as:
Linyi (Shandong Sheng, China : South)
How does that get entered in 370 $e? Linyi, Shandong Sheng, China ?
What happens with the South part? (There is another Linyi
At a NACO workshop on RDA authority records held last month, a trainer
from COIN reiterated the provision at DCM, Z1, 370, General, para. 1, a).
Then, a reminder was added that, for placement under authority field 370s,
it should be Korea and *not* Korea (South) [or *not* Korea (North)
for
The DCM Z1 says to remove terms for jurisdiction or other distinguishing terms.
So:
Korea not Korea (South)
Russia not Russia (Federation)
and Linyi, Shandong Sheng, China without the qualifier South
^^
Adam L. Schiff
Principal Cataloger
University of
Libraries
617-253-7137
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Ben Abrahamse wrote:
This strikes me as similar to the old NACO rule of thumb, Don't add cross-
reference for a variant of a variant.
I.e.: Don't add a qualifier to a qualifier.
It makes sense for a heading.
It does not make sense to me, when you end up with a qualifier that is
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