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I wanted to agree that role is all that's needed for names to distinguish the subject, author, etc. relationship to the content being described. I also think that perhaps the name does not need to be "subfielded" in the MARC sense, if it can be clear when the name is based on a controlled form in an authority file (namespace?) - we could then rely on authority control to help with indexing and displays, and other names not under control would be assumed to be keyword accessible (hopefully eventually systems would tie in to a virtual international authority file to get the variant and uncontrolled forms to collocate with the controlled forms for better precision of searching). - Barbara Tillett Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Ph.D. Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4305 U.S.A. **Please do not send mail to LC via the regular post. All US Postal Service mail to the Library now is irradiated and takes several weeks to process. Please let me know if you want my home address. tel.: + (202) 707-4714 fax: + (202) 707-6629 email: [log in to unmask]