Without seeing the actual item, I would place it in the area of resp.
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller < wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de> wrote: > Gene, > > Thanks, but perhaps I didn't explain my problem clearly enough. It's not > about the main entry - I had indeed assumed that the conference would be > creator according to 19.2.1.1.1 d). My problem is about the bibliographical > description of such an item. Where does the name of the conference go - > main title, other title information or s-o-r? > > Heidrun > > > > > On 05.08.2013 17:25, Gene Fieg wrote: > > I am not speaking for every American cataloger here, but we would have the > m.e as the conference since it is a named conference. A parallel to this > would be if you had the title followed by statement of responsibility with > a personal name and did not make the personal name the main entry or > preferred entry. > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller < > wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de> wrote: > >> I'm rather unsure about what the title and statement of responsibility >> area should look like if there is both a formal name of the conference and >> a specific title of a conference on the preferred source of information. >> >> Let's consider the following example (which I've translated from German >> to English; in German it reads "100. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Berlin >> 2011" and "Bibliotheken für die Zukunft - Zukunft für die Bibliotheken"). >> The t.p. looks like this: >> >> ------------------- >> >> 100th CONFERENCE OF GERMAN LIBRARIANS >> IN BERLIN 2011 >> >> LIBRARIES FOR THE FUTURE - >> FUTURE FOR THE LIBRARIES >> [this is printed slightly smaller than the name of the conference above, >> but still in capitals] >> >> edited by >> Ulrich Hohoff and Daniela Luelfing >> >> ---------------------- >> >> According to the German cataloging rules RAK, the name of the conference >> here would be given as a statement of responsibility, i.e. (in ISBD): >> >> Libraries for the future - future for the libraries / 100th Conference of >> German Librarians ; edited by Ulrich Hohoff and Daniela Lülfing >> >> Note that for RAK, it doesn't matter which of the statements is most >> prominent and in which order the statements are presented on the t.p. - you >> would always take the specific title of the conference as title proper and >> the name of the conference as s-o-r. >> >> How would this case be treated according to the Anglo-American tradition? >> In WorldCat, I've found my example with the name of the conference as other >> title information, like this (again, I'm using the translated version): >> >> Libraries for the future - future for the libraries : 100th Conference of >> German Librarians / edited by Ulrich Hohoff and Daniela Lülfing >> >> Looking at LC's catalog, I've found no less than three different ways of >> handling similar cases - with the name of the conference either given as >> title proper, as other title information, or as a statement of >> responsibility. Examples: >> >> In http://lccn.loc.gov/98209348 (where the t.p. should look quite >> similar to the one in my example), the name of the conference has been >> given as the title proper, and the specific title of the conference (From >> Gutenberg to the internet) is given as other title information. >> >> In http://lccn.loc.gov/97152273, the specific title of the conference is >> given as title proper and first part of other title information (The new >> library : claim and reality), and the the name of the conference (31st >> Conference of Austrian Librarians Innsbruck 2011) has been treated as a >> second bit of other title information. I imagine this is due to the layout >> of the t.p., which gives prominence to the specific title. Have a look at >> the cover here: >> >> http://www.univie.ac.at/voeb/publikationen/schriften-der-voeb/band-11-die-neue-bibliothek/ >> >> But I've also come across examples where the name of the conference is >> treated as a statement of responsibility, e.g. in another of the Austrian >> Librarians' conferences: >> http://lccn.loc.gov/99185606 >> >> So I wonder: Is this a matter of cataloger's judgment, triggered mainly >> by the presentation and layout of the preferred source of information? Or >> is there some deeper rule which I haven't worked out yet? >> >> Personally, I think that it would make sense to give the name of the >> conference as a statement of responsibility: The congress is seen as the >> creator of the work according to RDA 19.2.1.1.1, and a statement of >> responsibility is defined as "a statement relating to the identification >> and/or function of any persons, families, or corporate bodies responsible >> for the creation of, or contributing to the realization of, the >> intellectual or artistic content of a resource". >> >> As always: Many thanks for your help! >> >> Heidrun >> >> >> -- >> --------------------- >> Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. >> Stuttgart Media University >> Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany >> www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi >> > > > > -- > Gene Fieg > Cataloger/Serials Librarian > Claremont School of Theology > gf...@cst.edu > > Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Lincoln University do not > represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the information > or content contained in this forwarded email. 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