Re: Card Catlog Filing, FRBR

> A recent contributor to this list said he or she had not seen a card >catalog that distinguished in filing between main and added entries for a >person. The old LC filing rules (pre-John Rather rules) did make this >distinction. >I do not know if the "frozen" LC card catalog off the Main

Card Catlog Filing, FRBR

Thursday, July 13, 2006 A recent contributor to this list said he or she had not seen a card catalog that distinguished in filing between main and added entries for a person. The old LC filing rules (pre-John Rather rules) did make this distinction. I do not know if the "frozen" LC card

Re: ISBD Review

Thursday, July 13, 2006 Dear Mac, I completely agree with you about the alternative title and have long thought so. My recollection is that considering it part of the title proper was due to the desires of French librarians and dates back to near the start of ISBD's--maybe when the 'I' wa

FRBR and "prime entry": what about relationships?

I'm quoting without attribution a couple of points from postings on 7/12. >> If searching by an author, all works with that author as entry, >> whether prime or added, are retrieved. It does not matter whether >> s/he is prime entry or not. Some OPACs made a hash of displaying >> entries i

Re: Functions of main entry

Hi Bernhard >If there is no indication > whatsoever as to primary responsibility, then sorting by author+title > becomes impossible lest we manage to implement clairvoyance into the > software. The question, as I see it, is whether we really need a primary access point, or whether we are jus

Re: Functions of main entry

Hi Mac I'm not sure whether you understand what I mean (which is fine, as I often don't understand what I mean either). Firstly, I like this holistic approach to cataloguing (that is, that it "should not be cut up like an apple pie" but rather taken as a whole), but I don't really agree wit

Re: Functions of main entry

J. McRee Elrod wrote: Title (or uniform title) as prime access point is alive and well, and should be *greatly* expanded. That was one of our ideas for a new German code. We sacrificed the concept of the corporate main entry. But we made a distinction between titles that can stand alone (as