I find it difficult to reconcile the following two RDA instructions
concerning titles of nobility:
9.4.1.3 (Recording Titles of Persons) says: "Record titles as separate
elements, as parts of access points, or as both." This also refers to
titles of nobility (9.4.1.5). So 9.4.1.3 seems to allow for recording a
title of nobility as a separate element *only* (i.e. not also as part of
the access point).
On the other hand, 9.19.1.1 (General Guidelines on Constructing Access
Points to Represent Persons) says: "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." 9.19.1.2 lists,
among other things, "a title of (…) nobility (see 9.4.1.5)". So this
rule seems to say that a title of nobility must *always* be recorded as
part of the access point.
This seems somewhat contradictory. Perhaps there is something I've
overlooked?
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
