Le 28.10.2012 09:46, Heidrun Wiesenmüller a écrit :
Mac said:
Interesting. I would be inclined to stick with title page, because
the same content (same type setting as was said when type was still
set) may be reissued with a new cover and/or spine title, or rebound
locally with a new binder's title.
Be assured that I also want to keep the title page as the chief source
of information for printed materials. There are, I believe, a number
of good reasons for doing this, and you mention some of them. Another
is that questions of design play a much bigger part on the front cover
than on the title page - so the version on the t.p. can perhaps be
seen as the one more appropriate for the aims of a catalogue.
But I think James Weinheimer has a point when he says that our patrons
may have different feelings about what is the most prominent part of a
resource.
Where I would apply your insight is for motion picture videos. The
DVD container is what patrons see. The DVD represents a new
manifestation. with resources (e.g., deleted scenes, interviews) not
in the original film. In North America. often the non English title
on the title frame is not even on the container.
Actually, our German cataloguing rules differ from AACR2/RDA in
exactly this respect. RDA 2.2.2.3 says: "If the resource consists of
moving images (e.g., a film reel, a videodisc, a video game, an MPEG
video file), use the title frame or frames, or title screen or
screens, as the preferred source of information." According to our
German rules, we prefer the information given on the container (if
there is one). So for e.g. a DVD, the container would be our chief
source of information. This, by the way, is another example of the
many things we'll have to change when making the move to RDA (sigh...).
I suppose the main reason for our rule is not "thinking as the patron
does", though, but rather a practical one: It is simply seen as too
time-consuming if a cataloguer always had to start the DVD (or
whatever it is). Also, you can't be sure that cataloguers have the
technical devices necessary to play all kinds of media in their own
work environment.
Heidrun
In Switzerland, IDS Libraries (Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz)
applies AACR2 with specific local application rules.
(KIDS - Katalogisierungsregeln IDS - Online acces:
http://www.informationsverbund.ch/27.0.html - German or French)
KIDS Chapter 7, par. 7.0B1. Chief source of information stipulates to
use chief source of information (in this order of preference):
a. the item itself (e.g., the title frames)
b. the label on the item
c. the container
But the rule is completed with an application rule, which says that
"Each library decides itself, if the resources are viewed or not. If
not, it is to be mentioned in a note".
As already mentioned by Heidrun, to view the resource when cataloguing
it would be too time-consuming, so practically no one does it and almost
all videos are de facto catalogued according to the information on the
label and/or the container.
Anne Jolidon
IDS-Koordination Formalkatalogisierung und Format
http://www.informationsverbund.ch
c/o Universitätsbibliothek Bern
Zentralbibliothek
Münstergasse 61
CH-3000 Bern 8
