Hi All I am looking at how to deal with children's picture books using RDA rules, and would like to know what others think.
I think of children's picture books as being co-created by the author and the illustrator, and I believe it would be a different work if there were different illustrations, rather than a different expression. My reading of RDA is that if I believe a person to be a co-creator of a work, rather than a contributor to an expression, then the only available relationship designator for the illustrator is "artist". However, there is an LC-PCC PS stating "Provide an authorized access point in the bibliographic record for an illustrator in all cases of resources intended for children. Give the RDA appendix I designator "illustrator" in MARC 700 subfield $e." Can anyone help explain this apparent anomaly? Thank you Jenny Wright Development manager Bibliographic Data Services Ltd.
