On Mar 25, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Alan Merryweather wrote: > I want to be really sure about the style of name of an author. > > If a book is published, written by J Smith and that name is on the title > page, how am I to signify that his full name is James Arthur Smith?
I agree that the author record should normally have the name most commonly used by the author. As mentioned, you can put James Arthur Smith in the "alternate names" field on the author record. You could also put a short statement in the author description field. However, if most of the time he is known as James Arthur Smith, and this book is an exception, I would put James Arthur Smith in the author record, and edit the edition record to say J Smith in the "by statement" field (turn on "librarian mode" to see this field). - Alan _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
