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Does the “other designation” (including title) associated with a person refer to the entity represented by the authority record, or to a heading for the person? It sometimes happens that the same person has more than one “other designation” or title, and one is used in the preferred access point, the other only in a see reference. For example: 100 00 |a Louis |b IX, |c King of France, |d 1214-1270 400 00 |a Louis, |c Saint, |d 1214-1270 Another example: 100 1_ |a Windsor, Edward, |c Duke of, |d 1894-1972 400 0_ |a Edward Albert, |c Prince of Wales, |d 1894-1972 If they are considered to refer to the entity, presumably you would just use a separate 368 for each designation: 368 __ |a King of France 368 __ |a Saint I'm assuming that you would use two 368s to avoid confusion with cases where multiple “other designations” appear in a single heading, such as : 100 0_ |a Francis, |c of Assisi, Saint, |d 1182-1226 368 __ |d of Assisi |d Saint But if the designations refer to headings, and they differ from heading to heading, as in the first two examples, what do you do? Use the linking field to link the designations to the relevant headings, or just put in the designation that is used on the preferred heading, or ... ? Liz O'Keefe Elizabeth O'Keefe Director of Collection Information Systems The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016-3405 TEL: 212 590-0380 FAX: 212-768-5680 NET: [log in to unmask] Visit CORSAIR, the Library’s comprehensive collections catalog, now on the web at http://corsair.themorgan.org