Influenced in part by the recently issued NACO RDA Training Materials, Module 6, Slides 118-123?

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Finnerty, Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 2:13 PM
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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

Ryan J. Finnerty | Head, Database Management & NACO Coordinator

UC San Diego Library | Metadata Services Department

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