Guideline 4 of the PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records says:

"Assign an RDA element name as a relationship designator, e.g., "creator" (19.2) or "publisher" (21.3) if it will most appropriately express the relationship. Note: This departure from RDA is necessary in our current MARC environment to express the relationship because not all RDA elements have dedicated MARC fields. However, do not propose RDA element names for inclusion in RDA relationship designator lists."

So I think that takes care of Ms. Ingram's problem.

I don't understand why there is no relationship designator "publisher," though.  Is it assumed that if an entity does nothing but publish a resource, it does not need its own access point?  This is usually true, but not always--here at Vanderbilt we tend to trace small press publishers of what I call "fancy" books, as I'm sure many other libraries do.  Using "issuing body" for those entities seems like a silly workaround.  Any normal person thinks of that entity as a "publisher" (though perhaps also "printer"), and certainly not an "issuing body."

Unlike Ben, I don't believe that any entity named in a 264 constitutes an "issuing body."  The definition quoted by Ben--"A person, family or corporate body issuing a work, such as an official organ of the body" (I'm not sure where this is in RDA)--supports my contention.  Note that the entity is issuing a "work," whereas a publisher generally just "issues" a "manifestation."  The publisher manifests the work in a manifestation; the work itself does not emanate from the publisher.  

Pete Wilson
Vanderbilt University

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The PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records 

http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/PCC%20RDA%20guidelines/Relat-Desig-Guidelines.docx 

allows terms to be taken from registered vocabularies other than RDA's Appendixes. "Publisher" is a term found on the MARC Code List for Relators http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html, a registered vocabulary, and therefore could be used if in your judgment "issuing body" is not appropriate. (Or for that matter, you could record both.)

Bob 

Robert L. Maxwell
Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger
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Brigham Young University
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Dear colleagues

I need some advice please. I made an access point for a corporate body (MARC 710 field) that was the publisher as well as part of the series statement. I went through Appendix I, but could not find a suitable relationship designator. The only designator I could find was "issuing body" and that is not applicable in this case. We often make access points like these, especially if it is not a commercial publisher, but a Dept of a university, a society or other such body. 

There is a title access point with an editor:
245 00 #aV2V/V2I communications for improved road safety and efficiency /#cedited by Ronald K. Jurgen.
264   1 #aWarrendale, Pennsylvania :#bSAE International,#c[2012]
490 1  #aSAE International progress in technology series
700 1  #aJurgen, Ronald K.,#eeditor.
710 2  #aSociety of Automotive Engineers,#e  ???

Kind regards.
Annette Ingram
Cataloguer/Trainer
Merensky Library, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa