On 05/19/2011 07:22 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
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Jennifer Sweda quoted the Paris Principles:
... when access is deliberately left out of the record
for a given author, then the catalog will not be an "efficient
instrument" to find out "which works by a particular author ...
RDA requires only the first author and illustrators of children's
books as author mainn or added entry. You can have main entry under
first author, a statement of resonsibility giving that author plus
"[and<nn> others]", with no author added entries. There needs to be
a minimum standard number.
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Absolutely! The standard as it reads now is that all you have to do to
follow the standard is to trace main entry, translators and illustrators
of children's books (which is really weird!). Everybody seems to assume
that this allows the catalogers suddenly to start tracing *additional*
headings. Why? It is simply unrealistic to think people will do more
than the minimum--especially in this economic climate. Why would anybody
believe it would increase, except in really exceptional cases of
projects with special funding, or the cataloger just felt like doing it
because he or she liked the resource and maybe the bosses won't notice?
What are the cataloging managers going to decide? Will they just say,
"Do whatever you feel like!"
There will have to be at least some local policies on specific
materials, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias, wikis, serials and
other resources.
Also relevant to the discussion are the scandals in the authorship of
scientific materials published by "too many people"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/science/after-two-scandals-physics-group-expands-ethics-guidelines.html.
Here are some articles I have found quickly, "Ethical Abuses in the
Authorship of Scientific Papers"
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbent/v51n1/01.pdf and guidelines for
biomedical journals http://www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html.
Provide a minimum number of authors. It's clear and simple. Otherwise,
each institution will have to decide on its own. It makes as much sense
to standardize it as to let it all go down to one author, which it
probably will, unless catalogers just continue the practices as they are
now.
--
James L. Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com
First Thus: http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/
Cooperative Cataloging Rules: http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/
