I'm rather unsure about what the title and statement of responsibility
area should look like if there is both a formal name of the conference
and a specific title of a conference on the preferred source of information.
Let's consider the following example (which I've translated from German
to English; in German it reads "100. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Berlin
2011" and "Bibliotheken für die Zukunft - Zukunft für die
Bibliotheken"). The t.p. looks like this:
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100th CONFERENCE OF GERMAN LIBRARIANS
IN BERLIN 2011
LIBRARIES FOR THE FUTURE -
FUTURE FOR THE LIBRARIES
[this is printed slightly smaller than the name of the conference above,
but still in capitals]
edited by
Ulrich Hohoff and Daniela Luelfing
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According to the German cataloging rules RAK, the name of the conference
here would be given as a statement of responsibility, i.e. (in ISBD):
Libraries for the future - future for the libraries / 100th Conference
of German Librarians ; edited by Ulrich Hohoff and Daniela Lülfing
Note that for RAK, it doesn't matter which of the statements is most
prominent and in which order the statements are presented on the t.p. -
you would always take the specific title of the conference as title
proper and the name of the conference as s-o-r.
How would this case be treated according to the Anglo-American
tradition? In WorldCat, I've found my example with the name of the
conference as other title information, like this (again, I'm using the
translated version):
Libraries for the future - future for the libraries : 100th Conference
of German Librarians / edited by Ulrich Hohoff and Daniela Lülfing
Looking at LC's catalog, I've found no less than three different ways of
handling similar cases - with the name of the conference either given as
title proper, as other title information, or as a statement of
responsibility. Examples:
In http://lccn.loc.gov/98209348 (where the t.p. should look quite
similar to the one in my example), the name of the conference has been
given as the title proper, and the specific title of the conference
(From Gutenberg to the internet) is given as other title information.
In http://lccn.loc.gov/97152273, the specific title of the conference is
given as title proper and first part of other title information (The new
library : claim and reality), and the the name of the conference (31st
Conference of Austrian Librarians Innsbruck 2011) has been treated as a
second bit of other title information. I imagine this is due to the
layout of the t.p., which gives prominence to the specific title. Have a
look at the cover here:
http://www.univie.ac.at/voeb/publikationen/schriften-der-voeb/band-11-die-neue-bibliothek/
But I've also come across examples where the name of the conference is
treated as a statement of responsibility, e.g. in another of the
Austrian Librarians' conferences:
http://lccn.loc.gov/99185606
So I wonder: Is this a matter of cataloger's judgment, triggered mainly
by the presentation and layout of the preferred source of information?
Or is there some deeper rule which I haven't worked out yet?
Personally, I think that it would make sense to give the name of the
conference as a statement of responsibility: The congress is seen as the
creator of the work according to RDA 19.2.1.1.1, and a statement of
responsibility is defined as "a statement relating to the identification
and/or function of any persons, families, or corporate bodies
responsible for the creation of, or contributing to the realization of,
the intellectual or artistic content of a resource".
As always: Many thanks for your help!
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
