Question: Great! Slide 8 is now revised. However, slide 9 still gives an example of the old practice.
Answer (Ana Lupe Cristán, Library of Congress): Yes, the point is you DON’T HAVE to add it but you can if you want too. It used to be mandatory now it is optional, plus you'll see a lot of them still in the LC/NAF and we do not expect catalogers to remove the dates.
Revised Slides as Discussed Above
Compilations of one creator: Things to remember
- If your resource is a compilation by a single creator, determine if that compilation has become known over time by a title and use that title, otherwise use a conventional collective title
- Not necessary to know if a creator created works only in a single form.
- Do not use “Selections” in subfield $a of the 240.
- Current LC practice is NOT to add routinely add a date to any collective conventional title that begins with Works.
Notes: Let’s recap and say it in a different way - If your resource is a compilation by a single creator, determine if that compilation has become known over time by a title; this situation does not occur often but you’ll know it when it does.
No longer will a cataloger need to determine what AACR2 requires: knowing if the creator created works only in a single form. No longer will LC catalogers apply different policies if the title proper of the compilation is a “distinctive title.”
Under AACR2 and when we first implemented RDA, we added a date in subfield $f following “Works” or “Works. Selections” in a 240. Our current practice is not to add the date, thus we reuse the same authorized access point for a compilation of the complete works of an author published in 2012 and one published in 2013.
Compilations – one creator
- Remember that a corporate body can be a creator also so long as the contents meet the criteria at: RDA 19.2.1.1.1
[Source: Library of Congress]
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