Thanks, Mac and Deborah Interesting to get two such different answers, both with much to be said for them.
RDA does have the concept of 'supplementary content' (e.g. indexes, bibliographies, appendices), and such content is presumably irrelevant to whether the resource is treated as single-work or compilation. I'm now thinking that I should approach this issue by asking myself whether it would be reasonable to regard the minor components as merely supplementary content. In many cases this would not be reasonable - even quite brief essays and interviews in an art-related resource are often significant components of the primary content; but in the case of exhibition catalogues it would be entirely reasonable to consider any essays or interviews as supplementary to the main purpose of presenting a set of art works. This would also allow the cataloguer to respect the 'feel' of the thing - sometimes minor components feel like courtesy contributions or vanity contributions and the resource would be just as well worth having without them. That would give me at least some of the best of both worlds. Best wishes, Bernadette ******************* Bernadette O'Reilly Catalogue Support Librarian 01865 2-77134 Bodleian Libraries, Osney One Building Osney Mead Oxford OX2 0EW. ******************* -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: 22 May 2013 20:54 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Interviews & expressions Bernadette asked: >Can anyone elucidate where it would be correct to use the relators >'interviewer (expression) and 'interviewee (expression)? SLC most often uses interviewer and interviewee relator codes for oral history, whether print, electronic, or sound recording. We don't use the qualifier (clients don't know what it means, nor want it). Main entry is interviewee. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
