I'm not sure if I'm reading RDA correctly here, but I'm going to paraphrase what I think RDA is saying:
6.2.2.10: If the compilation is known by a distinctive title already, go ahead and use that as the preferred title (i.e., 240 if necessary). Otherwise: 6.2.2.10.1: If the compilation is a collection of all of the authors works, give *Works *as the preferred title. 6.2.2.10.2: If the compilation is a collection of all of the authors works in a single form, give the that as the preferred title. (i.e.*Short stories* ) 6.2.2.10.3: If the compliation is selections of the author's works, then give access to those works in analytical entries OR (reading the * Alternative*) identify the work with a conventional collective title (as above; Selections, Plays, Essays, etc.) with *Selections *appended (you may also give analytical added entries for the individual works as well) I read LC's PCC PS at this point as saying "Choose this alternate way: Instead of giving each work it's own analytical added entry, add a Conventional collective title (Such as Short Stories. Selections. English) plus ONE authorized access point for the first or major work that's included in this compilation" I'm still a bit confused by that example as to how to give access to the compiled works: Is the first example two works only in one volume and they use the first work as the 240 and the second with a 700(12)? Not sure. But anyway, that's how I read it, and it would help explain why your collection, with a distinctive title, gets a Conventional Collective Title. ~Leigh Billings On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Adger Williams <awilli...@colgate.edu>wrote: > I think this angle didn't come up in the previous thread. If so, I > apologize in advance. > > Under AACR2, we were not to apply a conventional collective title to a > collection of works like poems or short stories that had a distinctive > title proper. I'm wondering if people will continue to observe this rule > (as a rule of thumb, perhaps?). > > Piece in hand. > Title proper: There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband and > he hanged himself > Conventional Collective Title: Short Stories. English. Selections. 2013 > > The title proper is certainly distinctive, and there is no name-title > authority record that records the relationship of the conventional > collective title to the work (the collection), but I find the conventional > collective title in the bibliographic record. > > RDA 6.2.2.10.3 doesn't seem to speak to this issue, and the LC PCC PS is > about whether to give authorized access points for the subordinate parts, > not for what to do with the preferred title of the collection as far as I > can tell. > > Thanks > > -- > Adger Williams > Colgate University Library > 315-228-7310 > awilli...@colgate.edu > -- Leigh Billings (redn...@umich.edu) Information Resources Cataloging Specialist Slavic, East European & Eurasian Division of Area Programs University of Michigan Library 111-C North Hatcher Graduate Library 913 S. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 (734) 647-3819
