Putting a fuller name in the main author field might also help people choose this particular James Smith over others...
On 3/27/11 10:23 AM, Alan Millar wrote: > On Mar 25, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Alan Merryweather wrote: >> I want to be really sure about the style of name of an author. >> >> If a book is published, written by J Smith and that name is on the title >> page, how am I to signify that his full name is James Arthur Smith? > > > I agree that the author record should normally have the name most commonly > used by the author. > > As mentioned, you can put James Arthur Smith in the "alternate names" field > on the author record. You could also put a short statement in the author > description field. > > However, if most of the time he is known as James Arthur Smith, and this book > is an exception, I would put James Arthur Smith in the author record, and > edit the edition record to say J Smith in the "by statement" field (turn on > "librarian mode" to see this field). > > - Alan > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
