[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 clea

[RDA-L] Prize winners in authority records

Hello, I think it could be interesting to record, in Persons authority records, that a given author has been winner of a prize, such a Nobel, Booker, Pulitzer. Retrieving and grouping authors winners of a given prize can be of interest for users, although maybe is not an attribute essential for

Re: [RDA-L] Multiple identities named on same manifestation

Yesterday I discussed with a fellow reference librarian, who couldn't understand the logic behind separating different bibliographic identities for a single person. She couldn't see how disgregating the work of an author might help the user in any way. As a matter of fact, I don't see it eithe