Influenced in part by the recently issued NACO RDA Training Materials, Module 6, Slides 118-123? Steven Arakawa Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation Catalog & Metada Services Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 (203) 432-8286 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Finnerty, Ryan Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 2:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Variants on authority records with conventional collective titles Hi everyone, We ran across this authority record today with an interesting variant: 010 n 2012031573 040 DLC ǂb eng ǂc DLC ǂe rda 1001 Erdrich, Loren. ǂt Poems. ǂk Selections 4001 Erdrich, Loren. ǂt Poems. ǂk I take back the sponge cake 670 I take back the sponge cake, 2012. Should the real title of the work be in a $k like that? Or is this an error? If people are searching the catalog with the title as they know it (I take back the sponge cake), they won’t find it. I know that you can be more free-form with variants in RDA so this might be okay, however, I haven’t seen this done on any other records of this ilk. This record, for instance, does not use the $t/$k in the variant: 010 n 2010075372 040 DLC ǂb eng ǂc DLC ǂe rda 1001 Finch, Peter, ǂd 1947- ǂt Poems. ǂk Selections 4001 Finch, Peter, ǂd 1947- ǂt Zen Cymru 670 Zen Cymru, 2010, ©2010. Ryan J. Finnerty | Head, Database Management & NACO Coordinator UC San Diego Library | Metadata Services Department [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | (858) 822-3138