Heidrun quoted RDA:
>It seems RDA calls this a "conventional collective title". The glossary
>gives as the definition: "A title used as the preferred title for a
>compilation containing two or more works by one person, family, or
>corporate body, or two or more parts of a work (e.g., Works, Poems,
>Selections)".
Confusing.
IMNSO "preferred title" should always be the title on the item in hand
or on screen, if there is one. It should be in 245. With the
exception of a collection lacking a collective title, something
created by the cataloguer is not a good substitute.
For a work with varying manifestation titles, of course one would use
the most used title of the work in 600$t and 700$t, e.g., "Hamlet" not
"Tragedy of Hamlet".
If supplying a collective title for 245, it should be exact, e.g.,
"Two Victorian novels" not "Works. Novels."; 'Love poems" not "Works.
Poems.".
Using "preferred title" to mean either transcribed title or supplied
uniform title is ambiguous.
There is no reason to confuse patrons more than need be.
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