OK. I have had only occasional access to the RDA Toolkit and had not had an opportunity to delve deeply into RDA, and therefore was unaware of the complexities involved in the Author/title rules and searching.
kathie Kathleen Goldfarb Technical Services Librarian College of the Mainland Texas City, TX 77539 409 933 8202 Please consider whether it is necessary to print this email. -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 1:34 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Statement of responsibility naming more than three persons etc. Kathie said: >... other than for classification purposes, I do not believe the Main >entry really has that much significance ... Wouldn't that be Cuttering purposes, not classification? What about 600$a$t and 700$a$t entries? Then there is the matter of coordination with scholarly citation practice. There are communities with which to play well, apart from the Web one. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ in the library's OPAC or our patron's searching needs.
