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Hello all,
I do not teach; however, I catalog monographs in the social sciences here at UCLA, and I have some examples to offer.
A recent example I worked on is a man named William Lyford, who was the "progenitor" of a modern-day gated community in the Bahamas called Lyford Cay, just outside of Nassau. Many wealthy people own homes here, including Sean Connery! (Here's a fun URL to look at: http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/red-hot-bahamas ) If you search the name authority file for: Lyford, William, 1719-1794, you will find this man's name. You will also find many other William Lyfords. Historically it was customary in many countries to name the sons for the father, thus resulting in many different individuals with virtually the same name.
The "undifferentiated personal name" concept illustrates the case where we document the occurrence of people with identical names about whom we have no further identifying information. Here is one that I noted some time ago:
1001 Jamet, Delphine
670 [Author of Street kid in the city]
670 Street kid in the city, 2001: ǂb t.p. (Delphine Jamet) 670 [Editor of La Seconde Guerre mondiale en Gironde par les textes] 670 La Seconde Guerre mondiale en Gironde par les textes: ǂb p. facing t.p. (textes réunis et annotés par Delphine Jamet)
This illustrates how we can potentially assist the catalog searcher by revealing what we do _not_ know.
Hope this helps.
Louise Ratliff
Social Sciences Cataloger
University of California, Los Angeles
Louise Ratliff
Social Sciences Cataloger
UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center
Phone: (310) 825-8642
Fax: (310) 206-4974
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