Lori,
The period of activity does not have to match. The pseudonym can have
different dates than the real person. There is nothing in RDA that says
they have to be identical.
Adam Schiff
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Lori Van Deman-Iseri wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:46:04 +0000
> From: Lori Van Deman-Iseri <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: A pseudonym and a sticky authority wicket
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> Hello PCC-list,
> I have an audiobook in hand that gives the author's name as "E. B. Cross." E. B. Cross is already established in the NAF for an author of religious works in the late 1800s... obviously a different person. Lacking any biographical info about my E. B. Cross, the only information I can come up with to differentiate them would be a period of activity, "active 20th century" (the two books I can trace to my E. B. Cross were originally written in the 1980s). Now it gets worse. My in-hand E.B. Cross is a pseudonym for Ed Breslin, who is already established in the NAF and is still writing. Besides some information that I think was erroneously included in a vendor's bibliographic record, I can't find any documentation that says they are the same person, though they obviously are. The best I can do are some cover images for the same book that use Breslin's name instead of E. B. Cross, but they're all from book vendor websites and not something I can cite. I also have been unable to f!
ind any more certain dates to add to Breslin's record to help me break the conflict in the new 500. I've written to the author but not heard anything back.
> Here's where I'm stuck:
> I can create the new authority for the pseudonym E. B. Cross, active 20th century. But adding "active 20th century" to Breslin's record (if I'm even able to find a way to justify creating the reference) is problematic because I need that period of activity to match, and his period of activity is different than the pseudonym's. Additionally, it would create some BFM and, frankly, I just don't like how it looks. And if I *can't* justify making the 500 reference between Breslin and E.B. Cross, what do I do? Just create a new record for the pseudonym with a note somewhere along the lines of "Suspected pseudonym of Ed Breslin"?
> I appreciate any insight or obvious solutions that I'm missing. I've spent plenty of time overthinking this one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lori Van Deman-Iseri
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