PS. Sorry, I should have said more explicitly, the fact that the contributions by different authors and that there is clearly a "main" text is something we have decided to ignore at the Courtauld. As long as the texts have named authors - i.e. are not anonymous captions, bibliographies etc. - we would ignore their uneven lengths when making the compilation decision.
It will be really interesting to see how others are treating these types of publications. Deborah Lee Senior cataloguer Book Library Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House Strand London WC2R 0RN Telephone: 020 7848 2905 Email: deborah....@courtauld.ac.uk<mailto:deborah....@courtauld.ac.uk> Now on at The Courtauld Gallery: Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901 14 February - 27 May 2013 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Lee, Deborah Sent: 22 May 2013 12:44 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Uneven compilations Dear Bernadette, We have been discussing very similar cases, which for us are usually exhibition catalogues. This matter has generated a lot of variation in our practice records and a lot of debate! To help us, we devised a flowchart for deciding whether something was a compilation or instead a work by a single author or artist. In the case you describe, if I have understood correctly, we would treat it as a compilation. Even if the item contained reproductions of the artworks of a single artist, the presence of multiple essays/texts means we would rule out the artist as the creator. From here, as the separate authors are named in different sections of the book, we would consider it a "normal" compilation. So, we do make a case-by-case decision, but use our flowchart to guide us. We hope that in the coming months, conventions for cataloguing exhibition catalogues in RDA will emerge, so we fully expect to change our flowchart and practices accordingly in the future. However, for now, it is saving a lot of time and agony! Best wishes, Debbie Deborah Lee Senior cataloguer Book Library Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House Strand London WC2R 0RN Telephone: 020 7848 2905 Email: deborah....@courtauld.ac.uk<mailto:deborah....@courtauld.ac.uk> Now on at The Courtauld Gallery: Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901 14 February - 27 May 2013 From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Bernadette Mary O'Reilly Sent: 22 May 2013 10:42 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> Subject: [RDA-L] Uneven compilations Hello, I have come across a number of resources, mainly art-related, which consist of a main text by one person with a number of very brief essays, interviews and suchlike by other people. Both the main and the minor components are about the same artist, exhibition, or movement, so the minor components are freestanding and do not relate to the main component as editorial material or commentary. 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