When training, I like to use the LC cataloging for ISBN 9781401310646 (LCCN 2011015148). The record was cataloged following AACR2, but it’s easy to see how a fictitious character AAP would be used in RDA. This is clearly not a pseudonym situation. Steven Arakawa Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation Catalog & Metada Services Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 (203) 432-8286 steven.arak...@yale.edu<mailto:steven.arak...@yale.edu>
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Jack Wu Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 9:12 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA name authorities |c (Fictitious character) I must thank Mac and others for taking time to explain to me RDA's decision to treat ALL fictitious characters equally, Nevertheless, I also have much less difficulty accepting the change from Clemens to Twain than accepting the authorship of Pooh, $c the Bear; or Snoopy, $c the Dog; or Kermit, $c the Frog. While one may just dress less formally, to have a bear, a dog, or a frog utter anything but growls, and groans, is hard to grasp. Perhaps the relationship designator of $e author should here be changed to $e Dubious author, or perhaps $e attributed name, or $e Pretended author. Perhaps $c (fictional non-person), $c (fictional animal) can be added to $c (fictional character). It is less likely the patron will fail to associate Milnes with Pooh, or Schultz with Snoopy, or know that Kermit is just a puppet from previous encounters with similar books, than to accept, or assume that Pooh, Snoopy, and Kermit actually wrote anything . Such pretense will not make catalogers, cataloging, or the cataloging code more intelligent or more intelligible than they are not. Jack Jack Wu Franciscan University of Steubenville j...@franciscan.edu<mailto:j...@franciscan.edu>
