You can also add subdivisions to main headings to clarify the context. For
example: War crimes--Study and teaching or Genocide--History or many other ways
to be more specific. I believe that LC is going to be making --Law and
legislation available for use under crimes as well. See the announcement at
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/crime-law-and-legislation.pdf
Adam
From: Robert Bratton
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:35 AM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] The meaning of 372 Field of Activity
Field of activity is pretty broadly defined in RDA 9.15 as a: "field of
endeavour, area of expertise, etc., in which a person is engaged or was
engaged." You could propose that Field of endeavour and Area of expertise be
two separate data elements, but for now they are lumped together.
Being in a law library I have run into this issue because legal academics often
write about unsavory topics. When I put terms like "Rape" or "War crimes" or
"Family violence" in the Field of activity data element I often pause and
think, "Wait, am I making it sound like this person is a perpetrator of these
things?"
Thus:
372 $a War crimes $a Genocide $2 lcsh
374 $a Law teachers $a College teachers $a Authors $2 lcsh
and
372 $a War crimes $a Genocide $2 lcsh
374 $a War criminals $a Generals $2 lcsh
For the punk rock example you could also have:
372 $a Punk rock music $2 lcsh
374 $a Punk rock musicians $2 lcsh
and
372 $a Punk rock music--History and criticism $2 lcsh
374 $a Music critics $2 lcsh
Robert
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Robert Bratton
Cataloging Librarian
George Washington University Law Library
Washington, DC 20052
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Moore, Richard <richard.mo...@bl.uk> wrote:
Ricardo
All you are doing with “372 Punk rock music”, is expressing that the person
has that field of activity. It’s the 374 that tells you their occupation, in
relation to that field:
372 $a Punk rock $2 lcsh
372 $a Punk rock musicians $2 lcsh
or
372 $a Punk rock $2 lcsh
372 $a Music critics $2 lcsh
and of course you can put more than one thing in 372:
372 $a Punk rock $a Musical criticism $2 lcsh
372 $a Music critics $2 lcsh
Regards
Richard
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Richard Moore
Authority Control Team Manager
The British Library
Tel.: +44 (0)1937 546806
E-mail: richard.mo...@bl.uk
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Santos Muñoz, Ricardo
Sent: 14 November 2013 10:07
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: [RDA-L] The meaning of 372 Field of Activity
Hello again.
I’m wrangling with some of the 3xx fields for authority records, in order to
produce some policy for using some of them in a coherent and fruitful way. I’m
facing some problems, and neither the MARC field itself, nor RDA instructions,
nor the use I’ve seen out there gives me a clear view.
The main bump in the road is field 372. Let’s say I’m working on Joseph
Stalin. I’d like record and retrieve him as a politician (374), as a member of
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (373), but I’d like to relate him with
communism. So, recording “Communism” in 372 seems perfect for that purpose. But
I would also record Comunism in 372 for a scholar historian on communism.
Summing up, if I record 372 Punk-rock, Am I expressing that the guy is a
musician (374), specialized in doing punk-rock music, or Am I indicating that
he/she is a music critic (374), expert on punk-rock music?
Thanks in advance for opinions and experiencies.
Ricardo Santos Muñoz
Depto. de Proceso Técnico
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Tfno.: 915 807 735
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