Fictitious characters as authors

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

Re: Fictitious characters as authors

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

Re: Fictitious characters as authors

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

Fictitious characters as authors

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