Karen Coyle said:
I think authorized heading for a person is actually an identifier for a
creator/persona. If you look at the NAF records for the various
personas Mark Twain adopted ...
There was a time when there was a cross reference from Twain, Mark
to the real person Clemens, Samuel
Mark Twain's authority:
100 1_ |a Twain, Mark, |d 1835-1910
500 1_ |w nnnc |a Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, |d 1835-1910
500 1_ |w nnnc |a Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius, |d 1835-1910
500 1_ |w nnnc |a Conte, Louis de, |d 1835-1910
Samuel Clemens' authority:
100 1_ |a Clemens,
Adam, what is it in the record that tells you that Twain is the name of
the person? Is there something in the fixed fields? Because in terms of
the MARC tags, all of the 5xx's are equal, as far as I can see. So
without prior knowledge I wouldn't know which of the 1xx forms
represents the actual
For cataloging purposes, there is no category for "the actual person." We have established headings for different bibliographic identities, one of which is chosen as the "basic heading" according to various criteria. (This procedure is used only when more than two names are involved.)
It
All of the names are valid for use in name-title headings, not just the
base heading. The base heading is simply the authority record that
contains the complete list of all other see also references. LC
instituted this to save the time of catalogers having to make the full
complement of see
Adam,
thank you so much for hanging in there and answering my questions --
this really helps me understand the meaning of the fields in the
bibliographic record. In case you (and others) are wondering, I'm pretty
agnostic on what the fields SHOULD represent -- I just want to know what
they DO
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