AACR2 makes a distinction between pseudonyms (which may as literary
identities be used as prime entry AACR2 22.B2), and fictitious
characters which may not be so used. It seems to me that if one does
not know the name of the human author, the name of the fictitious
character is as much a
Good afternoon all,
Thank you for your email. We have been discussing this issue at our
ALA/PLA Cataloging Needs of Public Libraries discussion group since the
topic first appeared on the OCLC cataloging list several months ago. We
also found out that OLAC had presented this very issue a few
Another issue that perhaps needs addressing is animals as authors, which
also currently do not get name headings and cannot be given entries. We
are all familiar with the books by Millie the dog and Socks (Sox?) the
cat, but commercials, fictional films and television programs, and
Dear RDA-list readers,
Previous discussion has taken place on OCLC-Cat. For the benefit of anyone
interested, I'm reposting my e-mails to that list, from the archives
http://listserv.oclc.org/archives/oclc-cat.html. (If other contributors to
the discussion want to bring their writings to your
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