Thanks Jasmin. I saw one of these recently and wondered what it was doing there!

Best wishes

Vanessa

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From: Heb-naco <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Shinohara, Jasmin 
via Heb-naco
Sent: 25 January 2022 18:57
To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <[email protected]>
Subject: [Heb-NACO] PSA: 246|g--cease and desist request


⚠ Caution: External sender

Hello, friends,

This is a brief Public Service Announcement regarding the 246 Varying Form of 
Title field. Recently, the |g has seen an increase in use for the purpose of 
recording the author’s name as it appears with varying forms of the title. 
There is no basis for this practice nor is it standard practice for the 246 
field.

Looking in MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data by LC (or Bibliographic 
Formats and Standards by OCLC), the 246 subfield g is defined as “miscellaneous 
information”. That is, miscellaneous information regarding the variant form of 
title, not just any miscellaneous information about the book or its author. 
Variant forms of author name are the domain of authority records not the 
bibliographic record. Please stop using the 246|g for recording the variant 
author name as it appears with the variant tile.

Thank you! Comments and questions always welcome,

Best wishes, Jasmin

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Jasmin Shinohara
Hebraica Cataloging Librarian
University of Pennsylvania
131 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
T. 215-746-6397
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Coordinator, Hebraica BIBCO, NACO, & SACO Funnels

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