SOME CHANGES HIDDEN IN AACR2 AMENDMENTS 2002
Nancy B. Olson
Several changes of significance to catalogers of audiovisual/nonprint media have been made to rules in the 2002 edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Only one of these changes is mentioned in the introductory section that lists current changes to the rules.
If any of you have spotted any other changes (other than those made to Chapters 9 and 12), please let me know.
AACR2 1.1B1. Title proper.
A new paragraph with two new examples has been added to 1.1B1 after the first paragraph and its examples.
"Do not transcribe words that serve as an introduction and are not intended to be part of the title. Give the title including these words in a note (see 1.7B4).
Sleeping Beauty
Note: Title appears on item as: Disney presents Sleeping Beauty
NASA quest
Note: Title appears on item as: Welcome to NASA Quest."
This rule change replaces in part the Library of Congress Rule Interpretation (LCRI) to rule 7.1B1, first printed in Cataloging Service Bulletin 13 (Summer 1981). That LCRI also covered rule 1.1B2, though it did not mention that rule by number.
The LCRI for 7.1B1 allowed catalogers to ignore (with three types of exceptions) all the grammatically linked words appearing before the "real title" on film title and credits frames, such as the "Disney presents" given in the new example above. Later discussions of this LCRI confirmed that it was specifically for Chapter 7 only, even though the technique of grammatically-linked wording appeared on all kinds of media, and became quite common for both direct access and remote access electronic resources.
The exceptions specified in LCRI 7.1B1 were as follows:
"1. The credit is within the title, rather than preceding or following it:
CBS special report
IBM close up
IBM puppet shows
2. The credit is actually a fanciful statement aping a credit
Little Roquefort in Good mousekeeping
3. The credit is represented by a possessive immediately preceding the remainder of the title
Neil Simon’s Seems like old times"
In the new rule, the note about the exact wording from the chief source of information is not presented as optional. The earlier LCRI did not call for the use of such a note. I suggest that when the wording appearing on the item might actually be thought to be a title by some patrons, and might be searched as such, MARC21 field 246 be used for the note.
246 03 $i Title on item: $a Welcome to NASA quest
For wording not likely to be thought of or searched as a title, I would suggest MARC21 field 500.
500 Title appears on item as: Disney presents Sleeping Beauty.
For the grammatically linked words catalogers have ignored as directed by the 1981 LCRI, I would not even bother making such a note.
Richard Burton as Winston Churchill in The gathering storm
245 04 The gathering storm
In this example, Richard Burton would be listed in the cast and traced as an actor. Winston Churchill would be named in the summary and would, presumably, have a subject heading made for him. There would be no good reason that I can see to make a note for the actual wording on the title frames.
The third exception in the 1981 LCRI directed us to include any personal possessive introductory wording in the title proper.
Neil Simon’s California suite
This practice is covered by AACR2 1.1B2. "If the title proper includes a statement of responsibility or the name of a publisher, distributor, etc., and the statement or name is an integral part of the title proper (i.e., connected by a case ending or other grammatical construction), transcribe it as part of the title proper."
One of the examples given is:
Eileen Ford’s a more beautiful you in 21 days
In an earlier AACR2, the "a" beginning the "real title" was capitalized; this was changed to lower case in Amendments 1993. That change also affects the Neil Simon example in the LCRI, and would affect the Richard Burton example above.
Personally, I am pleased to see this rule change added to Chapter 1, as this is a problem with titles of all types of media. In CSB 97 (Summer 2002) the 1981 LCRI was reprinted with an introductory note reminding catalogers that "LC uses Archival Moving Image Materials, rather than Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, for all its moving image materials cataloging."
AACR2 1.1B1 LCRI (CSB 99)
A rule interpretation in CSB 99 (Winter 2003) directs catalogers to:
"Use cataloger’s judgment in applying the second paragraph; note that the situation of words serving as a introduction rather than being intended as part of the title proper occurs primarily with moving image materials, electronic resources, and popular journals. Look at other sources in the resource and consider the presentation, differences in typography, etc. If in doubt, give the longer form as the title proper and give a title added entry for the shorter form."
AACR2 1.4.D4. Name of publisher, distributor, etc.
Old rule 14D4 has been deleted, and rules renumbered so there is still a rule by that number. The summary of rule revisions states that: "This rule instructed that the name of the publisher, distributor, etc., appearing in a recognizable form in the title and statement of responsibility area, should be given in the shortest possible form in the publication, distribution, etc., area. The rule was judged to be unnecessary and inflexible, and to limit the use of the area for search and retrieval purposes by automated systems. Examples throughout AACR have been revised to reflect the deletion of the rule."
This is one to watch out for, as catalogers have traditionally given the publisher in MARC21 field 260 in the shortest possible form. Of course, for audiovisual material, catalogers have traditionally included an added entry for the publisher, so have not had to depend on the wording of the 260 for this access.
"model" as an smd in AACR2 Chapter 3
Jean Weihs asked recently on the OLAC list about the change from "relief model" to "model" (AACR2 3.5B1) as a specific material designation for three-dimensional cartographic material in Chapter 3. She remembers objections to this years ago by audiovisual catalogers who felt there was a difference between a model and a relief model, and wondered how this change came about for the 2002 AACR2.
I have no idea how this happened. I do feel there is a difference between these concepts, but the change has been made.
AACR2 21.7
I was working on an example with a prominent editor and was looking for the rule about possible entry under editor. It has disappeared.
Rule 21.7, Collections of works by different persons or bodies, used to include the words "under editorial direction"--those words have been removed. No indication of this change is given in the Introduction to the 2002 edition, and I have not seen anything in CSB, nor any LCRIs about it. It makes me wonder what other changes in the text are not mentioned in any list of changes.
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