I feel the same. We get a lot of National Business Institute titles, where there will be numerous authors most of the time. The names are listed in alphabetical order and the person who worked the most on that book might be last in the list of authors because of the alphabetization. If we use only the 1st name, the author who contributed much will be ignored and the one who has the least role will get all the credit. So I was happy that with RDA we can list all the names.
-- angelina Angelina Joseph Cataloging Librarian Ray & Kay Eckstein Law Library Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 53201 Ph: 414-288-5553 Fax: 414-288-5914 email: angelina.jos...@marquette.edu From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 2:49 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. After all this talk about German cataloging, I suppose it's time to get back to RDA ;-) The other day we discussed the optional omission for statements of responsibility naming more than three persons, etc. (RDA 2.4.1.5). The general feeling was that although everybody ought to try and follow the standard rule (i.e. transcribe all names), it should be possible to use the optional omission for very long lists, if transcribung all names simply cannot be accomplished. I assume that a very similar idea is expressed in the LC-PCC-PS for 2.4.1.5 in the word "generally" ("Generally do not omit names in a statement of responsibility"). But I'm not happy that the only alternatives are either "all names" (standard rule) or "only the first name" (option). Why shouldn't it be equally possible to transcribe, say, the first three, five or ten names and then put "[and x others]"? This might be a more satisfactory way of dealing with longish lists than reducing them to only one name. Of course I'm aware of the fact that the "only first name" rule corresponds to AACR2. But still, I can see no reason why there shouldn't be more flexibility here. Am I the only one who feels like this? Heidrun -- --------------------- Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. Stuttgart Media University Faculty of Information and Communication Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi<http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi>
