Thomas said:
>All cross-references are access points
That's a silly and confusing ambiguity, but unfortunately not the only
one in RDA. A cross reference leads one *to* an access point (or
entry as we have traditionally called it).
>This understanding is just a carryforward from what was implicit in
>AACR2 cataloging through its focus on headings and references for
>works in bibliographic records.
A helpful distinction, the loss of which is resulting in more than one
entry for the same person or body in the same bibliographic record.
If "getting with the program" means having both Clemens and Twain as
entries in a bibliographic record, I not getting with the program.
We've changed from having Clemens as the entry, and Twain as the cross
reference, to the reverse. I am unwilling to have both as entries, as
the RDA ambiguity has already caused to happen with some authors with
two bibliographic identities.
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