Autocaters, Bibframers, and RDA-Lers, I was astounded to notice that in the Bibframe document, the statement of responsibility was not coded, but rather included in <title remainder>. This is a *major* loss of granularity, particularly if one wished to print a title list minus statements of responsibility.
I hope Bibframe overrides RDA, and codes alternate titles as <title remainer>. If we assign collective titles where lacking, AACR2/MARC21's having titles after the first as subtitle will not arise. Havint alternate titles in title proper, and titles after the first as subtitle is a major inconsistency. The "or" (the excuse for keeping alternate title in title proper) is no more difficult to cope with than "and" for collections without a collective title. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
