In June on the CONSRLST, we discussed a series that appears on pieces as:
Medieval women: texts and contexts
and on the spine as MWTC, so "texts and contexts" is arguably intended to belong in the title proper. The authority history shows that people went back and forth on where the authorized form should stop, and if extended, what punctuation should be used. When the SAR was recoded to RDA, apparently to avoid the need for a qualifier 130 was changed from "Medieval women" to "Medieval women--texts and contexts." I think that's a more useful solution than "Medieval women ([publisher])" or "Medieval women ([date of earliest]). If the recoding library had been bolder they could have left the colon in there. Interestingly, the series was first established in 1999 exactly as it appears on pieces, colon and all. At the time, we had different glasses on so this was considered an error and quickly changed.
Mary Jane Cuneo
Serials cataloging and NACO
Harvard Library
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Subject: Re: Differentiating titles proper
Adam Schiff wrote:
> This is a really good example where I think in RDA you would say that the
> title proper is Historical Israel: biblical Israel. We aren't supposed to
> change punctuation that can be transcribed in RDA, so I wouldn't change
> the colon to a comma.
However, RDA 1.7.1 says: "The agency creating the data may establish in-house guidelines for capitalization, punctuation, numerals, symbols, abbreviations, etc., or choose a published style manual, etc., as its preferred guide (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style). In such situations, use those guidelines or that style manual instead of the instructions at 1.7.2-1.7.9 and in the appendices." I understand this to mean that although RDA 1.7.3 says "Transcribe punctuation as it appears on the source", the cataloger may still add, remove, or change punctuation if that is what the in-house guidelines say to do. All that being said, if by "we" Adam is referring to PCC in particular, not RDA catalogers in general, then he is correct to say that we shouldn't change the punctuation, according to LC-PCC PS for 1.7.1.
Kevin M. Randall
Principal Serials Cataloger
Northwestern University Library
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