Gene, I wish it were so.
But 2.4.1.4 states, "Transcribe a statement of responsibility in the form in which it appears on the source of information." Immediately followed by the "optional omission", "Abridge a statement of responsibility only if it can be abridged without loss of essential information." I have looked in vain for something similar to AACR2 1.1F7., "Include titles and abbreviations of titles of nobility, address, honour, and distinction ... Otherwise, omit all such data from statements of responsibility", and not found it. I have also queried the RDA luminaries on this list and been told that including affiliations if they appear on the t.p. is part of RDA's adherence to "principle of representation". The fact that there are no examples of this in RDA just means JSC either didn't think of it or didn't want to get into it. Moreover the example I copied to the list was one I found in OCLC (there are plenty more of them, if you start looking). So, if this is not what RDA intends, the rules need to be made clearer, as it's how catalogers are interpreting it. Personally I would prefer that the optional omission be applied in these cases. There is value to the "principle of representation" of course, but I believe that value needs to be balanced against the fact that title pages have many more visual devices available to them (use of white space, font and font size, italic vs. roman, etc.) to communicate to users what information is essential and what is not. Since these cues are not available in a surrogate, the cataloger should be able (and encouraged) to use his or her editorial judgment. --Ben Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Gene Fieg Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:52 AM To: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Subject: Re: [RDA-L] S-o-R/RDA 2.4.1.4 Well, I thought I would go back to 2.4.1.4 and see what it says. It appears to be very much in line with AACR2. I did not see anything like the examples given in previous e-mails. Titles are omitted. They don't really add anything to the area of responsibility. I did see "Professors" used once, and that may be due the use of the last name. Anyway, I see no justification in RDA to include all of that other stuff mentioned in other e-mails. I looked at the LC guidlines (LCPPCs?) and they don't seem to include all that stuff either. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:30 PM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca<mailto:m...@slc.bc.ca>> wrote: Daniel posted: >"edited by J. Garland, [of] Cambridge Carbonates UK; J.E. Neilson, .[of] University of Aberdeen, UK; S.E. Laubach, [of] University of .Texas at Austin, USA and K.J. Whidden, [of] USGS, USA" This has the same difficulty presented by "by", "par", etc. introduced into statements of responsibility before ISBD's "/" replaced them, and by RDA's "language of the catalogue" inclusions. Such inclusions create difficulties in multilingual situations. With the exception of the loss of "[sic]", RDA's tendency to have data transcribed as found (with the exceptions of punctuation and capitalization) might be good. The goal of IFLA's Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) was that descriptions created anywhere in the world (preferably in the country of publication) could be used anywhere. RDA's inclusions represent a giant step backward from that ideal. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca<mailto:m...@slc.bc.ca>) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/<http://www.slc.bc.ca/> ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ -- Gene Fieg Cataloger/Serials Librarian Claremont School of Theology gf...@cst.edu<mailto:gf...@cst.edu> Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Lincoln University do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the information or content contained in this forwarded email. The forwarded email is that of the original sender and does not represent the views of Claremont School of Theology or Claremont Lincoln University. It has been forwarded as a courtesy for information only.
