Jinny Wesson said concerning Understanding emplyment law, 2nd ed.:
>The record shows Bales, Richard A. as the author in the 100 tag. I know
>in AACR2, I always used the first author listed on title page. RDA
>toolkit is confusing to me and I could not find information on this.
When cataloguing a later edition, we keep the original Cutter, but not
the main entry, if the order of authors changes on the title page.
To guess at major responsibility among more than one author is *not* a
good idea. Unless there is some other clear indication (such as
larger type face) the first author should be main entry.
Using RDA's fuzzy language to justify such guessing will result in
different descriptions and multiple records for the same
manifestation, and unacceptable variation in subject and added
entries, as well as differing citations.
I suspect this might be an error in editing the record from the
earlier edition record, as opposed to a choice made by the cataloguer.
Since this is a DLC record, it could be a carry over from a CIP
record, with order of authors changing during the publication process.
Somebody please correct that record on OCLC. I've reported it to LC.
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