Karen Coyle said:

>As for creators as main entries, to me, indicating the role of  
>creators and agents of all types allows you to make sensible choices  
>on output rather than having the catalog make one decision for all  
>situations. It's just a matter of giving more weight to, say, an  
>author over an illustrator ...

Hang on there.  All our art libraries want exhibition catalogues with
main entry under artist.  Usually the illustrations are more of the
content than the text, so AACR2 would agree.  But there is a grey area
of divergence between rule and preference.

Cataloguer judgement is still required.


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