Q: If we need a 600 tag, do we use exact copy of 100 tag, including indicators?
A: Yes, and it follows the same format for a name heading.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Statement of Responsibility, Access Points, Main and Added Entry on April 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Q: If we need a 600 tag, do we use exact copy of 100 tag, including indicators?
A: Yes, and it follows the same format for a name heading.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Statement of Responsibility, AACR2 Area 1 Title, Main and Added Entry on April 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Q: How do you create a cutter if there is no main author?
A: The Cutter is based on main entry. Main entry can also be the title if there is no 100 tag in the record. So you Cutter for the first significant word of the title, i.e., do not Cutter for the initial article.
Posted in AACR2 Area 6 Series, Main and Added Entry on April 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Q: Is the first indicator of a series always 0?
A: The 490 tag first indicator is zero if you do not add an 830 tag. If you add the 830 tag, you must change the first indicator to a 1.
Posted in Access Points, Main and Added Entry, MARC on October 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. To clarify, designation of function here isn’t necessary? Is there a circumstance when a cataloger must put this in?
A. Designation of function is optional. It is only used for your added entries. If you want to add it that is fine. Most optional rules mean it is up to the cataloger. It also means it is not generally a practice of the Library of Congress.
Posted in AACR2 Area 6 Series, AACR2 Area 7 Notes, Main and Added Entry on April 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. Then in the series statement of responsibility [Stephenson], does that person also get an added entry?
A. Generally you do not transcribe series statement of respon. Unless they are more like the author of the entire work. If you find it necessary to add the person, put the name in a note and then add the 700 tag. You have to put the name somewhere in the record before you can add the 700 tag. The best way is with a note since they are nor really responsible for the intellectual content of the work (in most cases.) Now if the person is really well reknown (sp?) in the field, you probably would want to add a note.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Statement of Responsibility, Main and Added Entry on April 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. On this book, on the tp, there is both an author and an editor listed. Do I include the editor in the 245 tag somehow? That editor has the most current copyright on the book.
A. Remember catalogers try not to be redundant. If description is in one area, they do not repeat in another. You transcribe exactly what you find on the t.p. Don’t let that confuse you, it is a fourth ed, right.
Follow up:
Q. I guess since he has the most current copyright, I wasn’t sure if he should be the main entry or an added entry…
A. You have to transcribe in the order you see on the t.p.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Title, Main and Added Entry on April 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. Why would the title be the main entry when we have the author/statement of responsibility?
A. The title could be main entry in certain circumstances, think of a book with no statement of respon. Author unknown.
Posted in Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. Summers selected and edited this work, so should the title be entered as a main entry instead, even though that’s not how OCLC did it?
A. You are on the right track. The OCLC record is not correct with this one.
Posted in Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. I am so confused I guess I don’t understand main or added entry
A. You create your 245 area 1 and from the statement of resp. you decide on your access points. If you have a single author as main entry that means they are responsible for the intellectual content of the work, then that person will go in the 100 tag alone. Not a 700 tag as well. If you have a work with two authors the first is main entry, and the second will have an added entry access point in a 700 tag. You never repeat names in the 100 tag in a 700 tag.
Follow up:
Q. Let me make sure I understand what you are saying, if there is only one author its a main entry, and if there is more than one author, its an added entry, and we would have a 700 tag for the second author
A. Yes, but don’t forget about the first author of a jointly written work, they are the main entry.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Statement of Responsibility, Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. For the Grossman title, Grossman is the author, but then there is an editor listed on the tp verso also. So, since there is an author, the editor isn’t important?
A. What is the chief source of information for area 1? The only way you can give this editor an access point is if you first create a note describing his function in the book. And I would only do so if he was someone of some prominence in the field of linear algebra. You have to consider the chief source and the t.p. verso is not the chief source for area 1. Also, don’t forget you have the answer keys to fall back on from Ex. 2.
Posted in Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. For series added entry, in the 830, do we include the series number?
A. Yes, you still include the numbering in the 830 |v. Remember this tag needs final punctuation.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Title, Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. I am confused by the first, second indicators, and number of non-filing characters in the title under the 245 field
A. The number of non filing characters has to count over for where you want the item to file in your catalog. If the title begins with the word “the cat,” you count over four spaces or characters and the second ind. in the 245 would then be 4 so the title files at “cat.” The first indicator in the 245 has to do with main or added entry. If the title the is main entry the first. ind. is zero. If the title is added entry, the first ind. is one.
Posted in Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. In the added entry field, is the |e required if it is not in the authority file? If so, is there punctuation that precedes it?
A. You have a document to help with final punctuation in the 1XX and 7XX tags. |e for the designation of function is optional. It is only used in the 7XX tags and if you do use it you must use correct punctuation spacing, etc.
Follow up:
Q. Ok, there are no examples of it in the variable fields summary document. Is there another document?
A. For |e? See the examples for 1, 2, 3 authors etc.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Statement of Responsibility, Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. What does the “q” represent in the 100 tag?
A. The |q in an authority file record for a personal name represents the fuller form of the name. So you will see things like Albee, Barbara L. |q (Barbara Louise)
Posted in Main and Added Entry on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. I guess my main question is why do we need to put if it is main or added entry on the assignment. I mean, if it is main, it is in the 100 tag (other than the rare occasion that the title is the main entry, in which case we use an indicator to show that) and if not, it is in the 700 tag.
A. You have to indicate next to each access point if it is main or added entry. I am asking this for this assignment alone to make sure you understand the concept. You are correct that it is understood in the tags and the indicators. You can take this notation out of ex. 5 and 6.
Follow up:
Q. So let me make sure I understand this – if I have a 100 tag Patterson, James (then we put next to it main or added entry correct?)
A. You are correct.
Posted in Main and Added Entry, MARC on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. Can we use the OCLC records as a guide for our MARC records?
A. Yes, but again, you will have to edit them. Be careful to check whether the OCLC record has the correct main entry.
Posted in Access Points, Main and Added Entry on February 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. In general, do we have to note main and added entries on the final titles as we did in the exercise for access points?
A. No notation is necessary in the final project.
Posted in AACR2 Area 1 Statement of Responsibility, DDC, Main and Added Entry on February 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. If a book is edited, the cutter # has to be of the title?
A. Yes. In an edited work the title is main entry. You Cutter for main entry.
Posted in AACR2 Area 6 Series, Access Points, Main and Added Entry, MARC on January 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Q. If the source only indicates it is in one series, then there will only be one 830?
A. Yes. There will only be one established heading for that one series.