Adam Schiff wrote: > 100 1_ Owens, Jo, $d 1961- > 240 10 Add kids, stir briskly > 245 10 Add kids, stir briskly, or, How I learned to love my life / > $c Jo Owens. > > Now the question I have is, given that the 240 that would be required in > an RDA record for this resource (because you have to name the work > manifested in this resource)**, would one or two variant title 246s be > required?: > > 246 30 Add kids, stir briskly > 246 30 How I learned to love my life > > Or would only the second 246 for the alternative title suffice in an RDA > record?
Seems that only the second 246 would be appropriate. The first 246 is not a *variant* title, it is the preferred title. And since it is already there in 240 (or 700, per your alternate coding), a 246 field for the same thing would be quite redundant. Although, there is also the matter of system indexing capabilities, but it doesn't really seem like a good idea to add redundant access points to make up for (hopefully temporary) ILS-specific deficiencies. > ** I realize that instead of the 240 a 700 related work access point could > be given: > > 700 12 $i Contains (work): $a Owens, Jo, $d 1961- $t Add kids, stir > briskly. You wouldn't believe how tickled I am to see you make this argument! This is much more in line with the FRBR WEMI concepts, and really should be the direction we end up moving in. And in this approach, the 100 field for the creator would not only be unnecessary, it would have no basis in the RDA guidelines. The 245 field is describing the *manifestation*, and the creator relationship is with the *work*. (This makes me think about all of the times people have argued that "main entry" isn't needed in online catalogs. I think those arguments didn't make sense in the contemporary context; but in the future, when we have metadata specific to the various WEMI entities, the what-we've-traditionally-called-main-entry concept won't apply at the manifestation level--it will only be at the work level, per RDA chapter 19. Hopefully, catalogers will start out describing *manifestations*, and then link those descriptions up to the expressions/works that are involved.) Kevin M. Randall Principal Serials Cataloger Northwestern University Library k...@northwestern.edu (847) 491-2939 Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1978!
