I don't understand. Are you saying you think the title
"Twelfth night, or, What you will" should file as "Twelfth night What you will"? I thought that would be the effect of enclosing "or" in the new nonfiling characters--"or" would just drop out. That is why I was suggesting we don't in fact want the system to skip over it in filing. I wasn't arguing against a different subfield technique for isolating the alternative title. I just don't think the nonfiling character technique is the right one. Bob Robert L. Maxwell Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian Genre/Form Authorities Librarian 6728 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 (801)422-5568 > -----Original Message----- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:01 AM > To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Alternate titles, an example of description broken > into bits > > Robert Maxwell said: > > >Except that in this case, if we consider "or" to be a part of the title, > >we *don't* want the system to skip over it in filing. > > Speak for yourself sir. > > Personally, I want all my "Twelfth night, or, What you will"'s > together under "Twelfth night", not split between the shorter and > longer versions of the title. > > If coded 245$a$i$b, one can map just 245$a (as I would like), or all > three (if that is what you want), to the title index in ones own ILS. > You can include or exclude alternate, sub, and parallel titles as you > like. It would be nice to have the option, as opposed to needing two > 246s to index. > > You certainly don't want the alternate title filing under "or". > > > __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ > ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
