Did I understand this correctly?
1. Parallel title proper on the cover but not on the title page: transcribe
parallel title from cover as part of the title statement transcription (in MARC
245) without brackets. (which has been my practice) It's hard to imagine any
justification for recording a parallel title external to the resource.
2. Other title on the cover but not on the title page: make a combination note
and variant other title in 246 under certain circumstances, but do not
transcribe the other title in MARC 245. Some alternatives that occur to me
since all parallel titles are core but the other title is not core (while the
other title is core in LCPS, this might explain the difference in the handling
of the other title vs the parallel title in RDA)
a. Just make a note in 500 if the other title is considered to be
important for keyword access; unless your system cannot do keyword indexing of
the 500 note, make a 246 only if you routinely make a 246 for other titles when
they appear on the title page. Do not transcribe the other title in 245 $b with
or without brackets.
b. If the presentation on the cover is ambiguous -- the other title
could possibly be interpreted as the title proper -- make a 246 1 $i Other
title on cover: $a <other title> -- Just as you would if you had the same
situation on the title page. Do not transcribe the other title in 245 $b with
or without brackets.
I suppose most of these 246 $i or 500 notes will be comprehensible only to
catalogers conversant in ISBD. "If considered to be important ..."
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
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[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Deborah Fritz
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:28 AM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Sources of information for other title information
Mulling over 2.3.4.2, for myself, I see it says: "Take other title information
from the same source as the title proper (see 2.3.2.2)."
OK, that is a very direct instruction--take it from the same source.
Then 2.3.2.2 says: "Take the title proper from the preferred source of
information for the identification of the resource as specified under
2.2.2-2.2.3"
Then 2.2.2.2 says: "For a book "use the title page, title sheet, or title card
(or image thereof) as the preferred source of information."
So, I agree with Heidrun that RDA is saying that if you find a Title Proper on
the title page, then that is the only source that you can use for the Other
Title Information.
2.2.4 says "If information taken from a source outside the resource itself is
supplied [including for other title information], indicate that fact either by
means of a note or by some other means (e.g., through coding or the use of
square brackets)." But the other title information is not from outside the
resource, so, as Heidrun says, this does not apply to our situation
But there is the Note instruction at: 2.20.2 Note on Title. Don't forget that
'Title' covers all the elements listed under 2.3, so this note covers Other
Title Information.
2.20.2.3 specifically mentions making a note for a Parallel Title Proper:
"If a parallel title proper is taken from a different source than the title
proper, make a note on the source of the parallel title proper if it is
considered important"
And then there is 2.20.2.5: "Make notes on other details relating to a title if
they are considered to be important for identification or access."
So, I would apply the reasoning given at 2.20.2.3 for Parallel Title Proper to
Other Title Information and say that if Other Title Information is taken from a
different source than the Title Proper, we can make a note on the source of the
Other Title Information if it is considered important.
And in MARC terms that would mean that a note about a subtitle from a cover
would be given in the 246 (just as we have been doing under AACR) as:
246 1# $i Subtitle from cover: $a VF-17's Top Guns in World War II
Does this sound logical?
Deborah
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[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:59 AM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: [RDA-L] Sources of information for other title information
I'm mulling over RDA 2.3.4.2: "Take other title information from the same
source as the title proper."
With books, the title proper is usually found on the title page. Does that
really mean that under RDA I can only take other title information which is
also placed on the t.p.? It's certainly not uncommon to find useful other title
information elsewhere in the resource, e.g. on the cover. According to our
German rules, I'd record this as other title information as well, but put it in
square brackets (to indicate that it doesn't come from the prescribed source).
As square brackets (or some other means) in RDA are only used to mark
information stemming from outside the resource, I'd have assumed that all other
title information found on the resource itself (no matter
where) is recorded in the same way. But 2.3.4.2 makes it seem as if other title
information which is not in the same place as the title proper is simply
disregarded.
I can't believe that this is really the case. So I must either have
misunderstood 2.3.4.2 or missed another rule, probably a more general one.
I've already read through 2.2 carefully, but haven't found a clue.
Can somebody enlighten me?
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Faculty of Information and Communication Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart,
Germany www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
