Hi Sean, Below is my analysis, based purely on a class project I did which included this topic. I have no practical experience (and no knowledge of existing AACR2 practice) so take this with a grain of salt.
I think you first need to determine whether the person publishes under their title of nobility, i.e. whether the person "uses his or her title rather than surname in resources" s/he created/contributed to (9.2.2.14). To me, with my lack of knowledge about British titles of nobility in general, it is tricky because many of the "proper names" of titles are the same as the surname (e.g. the Baron Byron, George Gordon Byron). According to Wikipedia (sorry!) this is the case for most "life peers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_peer#Forms_of_address]. Option (1) If the person does publish under their title, then the preferred name will begin with the "proper name." Going by RDA's examples, the "proper name" would be something like Byron, Bolingbroke, Willoughby de Broke, or Collins of Mapesbury. Then, the preferred name continues with the "personal name" in direct order, such as Lawrence Collins in this case. (Depending on how the name appears in resources associated with him, it might be Lawrence A. Collins or Lawrence Antony Collins.) Finally, the preferred name includes the rank, which is Baron (not Lord). preferred name = Collins of Mapesbury, Lawrence Collins, Baron Then, you go to 9.19 to construct the access point. The access point starts with the preferred name. Then you make additions. Here, 9.19.1.2 (for Titles or Other Designations) actually doesn't apply anymore since we've already included the title of nobility in the preferred name. But we can still add a date of birth (9.19.1.3): 1941-. authorized access point = Collins of Mapesbury, Lawrence Collins, Baron, 1941- in MARC: 100 1# $a Collins of Mapesbury, Lawrence Collins, $c Baron, $d 1941- Option (2) If the person does not publish under their title, then they can be treated as just a person with a surname (9.2.2.9). (You still need to decide what to do with the middle name.) preferred name = Collins, Lawrence or, preferred name = Collins, Lawrence A. or, preferred name = Collins, Lawrence Antony Then, RDA says to record the title of nobility in a separate element (9.4.1.5), since in this case we have not included the title of nobility as part of the preferred name. title = Baron Collins of Mapesbury title = Baron (I think the first is right, although some of the examples in RDA seem to imply that the title only includes the rank, Baron.) For the access point, you may consider adding the title (9.19.1.2) onto the preferred name. However, this is tricky because it says only to do this for nobility "if the title or part of title commonly appears with the name." To me, this is a condition that would've caused us to choose option (1) above in the first place. It could be that 9.19.1.2 would be employed for people who publish primarily under their personal name, but their name still appears with the title of nobility in other places in their resources (not in the statement of responsibility). Or, it could mean that the condition for option (1) requires that the resources only say "by the Baron Collins of Mapesbury" and omit his given name entirely. In any case, if you do add the title to the preferred name: authorized access point = Collins, Lawrence, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, 1941- MARC: 100 1# $a Collins, Lawrence, $c Baron Collins of Mapesbury, $d 1941- An example in RDA from 9.4.1.5 and 9.19.1.2 for Frank van Borselen, graaf van Oostervant is a little clearer because in his case, Borselen (or van Borselen) is a different word than Oostervant. When you do get a clearer/better answer than mine, please send it along! Thanks, Arthur Liu art....@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Sean Chen <slc.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble walking through 9.2.2.14 & 9.2.2.15 > > RDA 9.2.2.14 runs through how to record the names containing a title of > nobility. My hangup is the term "proper name". The instruction says: > "Record the proper name as the first element of the name if the person". > Well what is the proper name in a name like. Then on top of that what > parts of those names get coded where? Where does the $c (Title) begin and > end? > > Example/workcat: > > usage: "Lord Collins of Mapesbury" & "Lord Collins" > > is it Collins of Mapesbury? Is it Collins? Is it both: > > 400 1# Collins of Mapesbury, Lawrence Collins, $c Lord > 400 1# Collins, Lord > > or > > 400 1# Collins of Mapesbury, Lawrence, $c Lord ? > > Or alternatively from other sources of information > > usage: "Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury" > > 400 1# Collins of Mapesbury, Lawrence Collins, $c Baron > 400 1# Collins of Mapesbury, Lawrence, $c Baron > > I never though I'd have to do these sorts of names, but because of the > reevaluation policy and recode to RDA if using in a PCC record I want to > make sure I understand what is going where and what parts of the name are > actually used. I get the sense nothing changed from AACR2 here, but then > again I never really got to practice much on these sorts of names. > > -- > Sean Chen <slc.c...@gmail.com> >
