I think that is the intention. It was brought up as an RDA change from AACR2 at an early ALA pre-conference I attended. AACR2 1.1F12: "Treat a noun phrase occurring in conjunction with a statement of responsibility as other title information if it is indicative of the nature of the work." RDA 2.4.1.8: "If a noun or noun phrase occurs with the statement of responsibility , treat the noun or noun phrase as part of the statement of responsibility."
I later noticed that the second example in RDA 2.4.1.8 has "dramatised adaptations" as part of the statement of responsibility. AACR2 uses the same example and has "dramatised adaptations" as other title in 1.1F12. I also think that cataloger judgment is involved. RDA 2.3.4: "Other title information may include any phrase appearing with a title proper that is indicative of the character, contents, etc., of the resource or the motives for, or occasion of, its production, publication, etc." If you had Tome 1 / a novel by X, it is still a statement. If you had Tome 1 / novel X it really isn't a statement anymore, and it could be said that "novel" lacking a grammatical connection to "X" is an example of not occurring with the statement of responsibility. You still have the latitude to consider the noun phrase as indicative of the character, contents, etc. of the resource: Davy Jones : a pirate novel / by Y, not Davy Jones / a pirate novel by Y. Steven Arakawa Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 (203)432-8286 steven.arak...@yale.edu From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Benjamin A Abrahamse Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:24 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] Quick question about RDA 2.4.1.8 RDA 2.4.1.8 reads, "If a noun or noun phrase occurs with a statement of responsibility, treat the noun or noun phrase as part of the statement of responsibility." Does this mean that if we had the following two title pages: Tome a novel John Smith Another Tome a novel by John Smith The phrase "a novel" would be considered subtitle (in the first example), but part of the statement of responsibility (in the second), solely depending on whether or not the word "by" was there? -- Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems MIT Libraries 617-253-7137
