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Subject: RE: [PCCLIST] [RDA-L] RE: Subordinate or not: fraternal organization chapters
Thanks, John! I should have been more specific, but I meant "situation" as you described it in paragraph 1. I would have probably taken a similar approach as you describe. I also appreciate your paragraphs 2 and 3 which are well within the parameters of this professional cataloging email forum. I am of the opinion that if a cataloging rule impedes access, then the rule is wrong. Period. People make the rules. People can err. If a cataloging problem can be solved creatively, I'm all for it. Things get a little stickier if the record involved is a full level PCC, thus requiring any access points to be in full compliance with RDA even if the existing record itself is pre-RDA. If unable to make the access points genuinely accessible and fully RDA-compliant, I would probably make the changes locally, leave the master record alone, and hope for a future Policy Statement to deal with the matter. Practical policy statements that improve upon RDA do happen even if they sometimes take a long time, involving much documentation, many meetings, while the more immediate work load builds up.
Stephen T. Early
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Gordon Marr [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 2:19 PM
To: Stephen Early
Cc: Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Subject: RE: [PCCLIST] [RDA-L] RE: Subordinate or not: fraternal organization chapters
Hi Stephen:
If you are referring to the "situation" regarding the matter of Leif Erikson Lodge, my feeling is that use as a subordinate name is logical, since it is (as an example) absolutely dependent upon and representative of the Sons of Norway and has absolutely no independent status. It cannot exist without its superior. Therein lies the difference from such institution as "named" museums (for example) merely *affiliated* with other bodies (e.g., states, universities, etc.)
If you are referring to matters covered clearly by AACR-2 and not by RDA, I'd suggest two things. 1, just go with AARC2 as the simplest approach in all such cases. 2, pay more attention to the fact that RDA is simply not clear or concise or "standard" in general. Thus, you can't *obey* RDA throughout if, in fact, RDA favors "catalogers' prerogative" in many instances.
If you are referring to the situation of RDA not being entirely practical or logical (or even perfect), I'm all in favor of subverting it in practice where disagreement with its content can be effective in designing alternatives that can facilitate changes to it. If you cannot try alternatives, then you are stuck with a stone monument to inflexibility at all costs.
If you are talking about the manner in which politicians favoring authoritarianism rather than empathy effect their own election by making their opposition *look* less aggressive (dare I say "wimpy"?), then you have to consider being aggressive in response to them, with the eventual goals being the exposure and elimination of anti-empathetic authoritarianism from societies. A large chunk of the electorate does not vote on "issues", only on whether their proposed leaders seem capable of leading, even if it be straight to he**, locked and loaded.
Cheers!
John G. Marr
DACS
Zimmerman Library
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87010
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-----Original Message-----
From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Early
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 12:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] [RDA-L] RE: Subordinate or not: fraternal organization chapters
What would be your own solution to this situation, John?
Stephen T. Early
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-----Original Message-----
From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Gordon Marr
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] [RDA-L] RE: Subordinate or not: fraternal organization chapters
What is most interesting about this thread is that people can compulsively require decision-making to be based on blind obedience to rules (even when the rules don't exist) rather than on critical thinking based on logic.
And these people vote?
Cheers!
John G. Marr
DACS
Zimmerman Library
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87010
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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 5:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] [RDA-L] RE: Subordinate or not: fraternal organization chapters
Patricia,
We also think that Sons of Norway (U.S.). Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1 is the preferred form of the name. And Kate James pointed to the instruction in RDA at 11.13.1.3 that tells us to add (Seattle, Wash.) to the access point, if a chapter, branch, etc., is recorded as a subdivision of a higher body. But I'm still not convinced that RDA compels us to record the lodge as a subdivision of the parent body. If the name were "Lodge No. 1" then I would agree that it "simply indicates a geographic, chronological, or numbered or lettered subdivision of a parent body"
according to 11.2.2.14.3. But with the words Leif Erikson in front of Lodge No. 1, does it still simply indicate a numbered subdivision? LCRI
24.9 told us yes, that it does. But there's no policy statement like it to tell us that it does in RDA.
Adam
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Patricia Sayre-McCoy wrote:
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:00:29 +0000
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> You realize that this answer is coming late on a Friday afternoon after a very stressful week, and so will excuse any real dumb comments as being from the creature that has temporarily taken over my mind.
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> I think Sons of Norway (U.S.). Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1 is the correct form.
>
> Sons of Norway (U.S.) is the parent organization and clearly needs a qualifier. Since you say there is no other Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1, there is no conflict if you use only "Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1" as the subordinate unit. As for the number, the examples given for 11.2.2.14.3 includes things like "Class of 1957" where 1957 is too generic to stand alone. I would make a case that the number makes "Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1" distinct enough and doesn't need its own geographic qualifier.
> Pat
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> Patricia Sayre-McCoy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam L. Schiff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 3:09 PM
> To: PCC Discussion List; RDA Discussion List
> Subject: [RDA-L] Subordinate or not: fraternal organization chapters
>
> AACR2 24.9 has no equivalent in RDA:
>
> If a chapter, branch, etc., entered subordinately (see 24.13), carries out the activities of a corporate body in a particular locality or within a particular institution, add the name of the locality or institution, unless it is part of the name of the chapter, branch, etc.
>
> The LCRI for it says:
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> The rule is for any type of organization that covers a large geographic area in which chapters, branches, etc., are necessary for local activities of the membership. These chapters, branches, etc., can normally be recognized in two ways:
>
> 1) The organization is a fraternal one;
>
> 2) The designation of every chapter, branch, etc., includes a generic term that is either one traditionally used for such ("post," "lodge,"
> etc.) or an imaginative innovation to convey the same sense ("valley,"
> "stake," etc.).
>
> Consider the presence of any of these generic designations used for presumably all the chapters, branches, etc., as sufficient reason for subordinate entry in all cases.
>
> American Legion. William Peck Post No. 279 (Minneapolis, Minn.) Grand
> Army of the Republic. St. Paul Camp No. 1 Scottish Rite (Masonic
> order). Valley of Minneapolis Vasa Order of America. Carl XVI Gustav
> Lodge 716 (Dallas, Tex.)
>
>
> None of this has been carried over in RDA or LC-PCC PS.
>
> The only relevant RDA instruction that seems to apply is 11.2.2.14.3:
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> Apply the instructions at 11.2.2.14 to a name that is general in nature (e.g., contains neither distinctive proper nouns or adjectives, nor subject words) or that simply indicates a geographic, chronological, or numbered or lettered subdivision of a parent body.
>
> We recently had to set up a body called Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1. It's a lodge within the Sons of Norway. It's not clear to us that "Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1" SIMPLY indicates a numbered subdivision of a parent body.
> "Lodge No. 1" would we think. But does "Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1"? As best we can determine there are many other Leif Erikson Lodges within Sons of Norway, but no other numbered No. 1. So the question is, which is the correct RDA result:
>
> Sons of Norway (U.S.). Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1 (Seattle, Wash.)
>
> Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1
>
> Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1 (Seattle, Wash.)
>
> Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1 (Sons of Norway (U.S.))
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> or something else?
>
>
> If the answer is as we did it in AACR2 (the first result given above), then there's nothing in RDA or a policy statement that says to add the local place name as a qualifier unless it's part of the name. Don't we need a policy statement if we want to continue to get the same result as we did in AACR2?
>
> I searched OCLC authorities for RDA fraternal lodges and did not find any that were established differently than we were doing in AACR2. That implies that catalogers are not really applying RDA as written but simply carrying over their knowledge of AACR2 and the LCRI for 24.9.
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