Hi all We had an internal library discussion on this just as the questions started to come in on the list! The LC PCC statement at 9.0 is:
Fictitious Entities and Real Non-Human Entities LC practice/PCC practice: Apply this chapter to fictitious entities and real non-human entities following the guidelines below: No LCSH Authority Record Exists Create a name authority record for the entity following RDA instructions and NACO guidelines, whether needed as a creator, contributor, etc., under RDA, or needed only for subject access. Do not create a subject proposal for LCSH. LCSH Authority Record Exists If needed as a creator, contributor, etc., under RDA, create a new name authority record and notify the Policy & Standards Division (pol...@loc.gov) to cancel the existing subject authority record. Optionally, a new name authority record may be created for such an entity if needed only for subject access. If a name authority record is created, notify the Policy & Standards Division (pol...@loc.gov) to cancel the existing subject authority record. Future activity: A project to transition all fictitious and real non-human entities from LCSH will be conducted as resources are available. At 9.19.1.1 on constructing the authorized access point: "Make the additions specified at 9.19.1.2 even if they are not needed to distinguish access points representing different persons with the same name." And fictitious character is included in 9.19.1.2 with the example "Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)" So, I'm not sure why it is being applied depending on whether or not there is a conflict. I can't see a policy statement at 9.19.1.1 or 9.19.1.2 contradicting the RDA instruction but perhaps I'm just missing it. Alison Alison Hitchens Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian University of Waterloo Library ahitc...@uwaterloo.ca 519-888-4567 x35980 -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:13 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] Fictitious characters as authors Michael Bernhard said: >> It seems to me, too, that the heading for Holmes should be Holmes, Sherlock >> |c (Fictitious character). I would like this clarified. In the same load I had a number of name authorities & the 2 that were presented as sometime authors of books no longer had any qualifier. Is this a mistake or are we to interpret the fact that RDA does not require the qualifier to mean that it will be removed when a character is intended to stand as an author/creator? As an example, one was the new name authority record for 600 10|a Fletcher, Jessica This record also lacked the entire |c (Fictitious character) subfield that existed on the cancelled subject record. All of the reissued Wiggin name authorities had the qualifier. Some just didn't have the delimiter. Trying to make some sense out of this. //SIGNED// Patricia Fogler Chief, Cataloging Section (AUL/LTSC) Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center DSN 493-2135 Comm (334) 953-2135
