[rak-list] (Fwd) Re: main entry under corp.body?

[Bernhard Eversberg]

Und hier noch eine Mitteilung von K. Randall, Antwort auf J. McRee Elrod:

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>The JSC is certainly not the author of AACR2.  In addition to
>authorship being farmed out to individuals and committees, chunks of
>AACR2 can be tracked back to the "red and green books", and if one had
>the time, I am sure some wording could be tracked back to Panizzi.
>Cataloguing rules are a work in progress.

While I definitely agree with the sentiment that AACR2 belongs under title
main entry, I do not agree with the specific reasons that Mac gives here.

First, the concept of "authorship" is irrelevant to the point of choosing
entry under corporate body.  The determining criteria for such entry are
emanation and certain categories of materials as laid out in AACR2 (and
the LCRI).  A corporation is not the "author" of its annual report in a
traditional sense of authorship, but it is ultimately fully responsible
for the content of the report and rightfully is given as main entry in the
catalog record for the report.

Second, whether or not cataloging rules are a "work in progress" is also
irrelevant to choice of entry.  They could be written by a single person
acting entirely on his/her own, and yet still remain just as much a work
in progress.

Kevin M. Randall
Head of Serials Cataloging
Northwestern University Library
1935 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL  60208-2300
email: kmr at northwestern.edu
phone: (847) 491-2939
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Bernhard Eversberg
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