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Hi Gene, Your plan sounds reasonable (though you intend “Carel” rather than “Karel,” is that right?) However, there is some support one could cite for the spelling “Michael.” See this Dutch bio from the website of the T.M.C. Asser Institute: http://www.asser.nl/Default.aspx?site_id=1&level1=13687&level2=13742&level3=15224 Mary Jane Cuneo Serials cataloging and NACO Information and Technical Services Harvard Library From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dickerson, Eugene H Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:01 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Personal name question Hi, all. I working on cataloging the digitized version of a book by author T.M.C. Asser. The existing NACO record, still coded AACR2, has the name established as: Asser, T. M. C. ǂq (Tobias Michael Carel), ǂd 1838-1913 The usage seems to be consistent as T.M.C. Asser. There’s no justification in the NACO authority record for the fuller form of the name. I looked in Wikipedia and found this information on his name: Tobias Michel Karel Asser (28 April 1838 – 29 July 1913) was a Dutch<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands> lawyer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer> and legal scholar<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_scholar> of Jewish<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Netherlands> background, cowinner (with Alfred Fried<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Fried>) of the Nobel Prize for Peace<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Peace> in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Court_of_Arbitration> at the first Hague peace conference (1899). In VIAF, I found that the National Library of the Netherlands established the name as follows: ‡a Asser, T.M.C. ‡q (Tobias Michel Carel), ‡d 1838-1913<http://www.viaf.org/processed/NTA%7C069862273> As the author was Dutch, it seems to me that the form that the National Library of the Netherlands used makes more sense than the Anglicized version that is the current NACO form of the name. I was thinking that I should edit the NACO record so that the access point is: Asser, T. M. C. ǂq (Tobias Michel Karel), ǂd 1838-1913 I would also add additional 670 fields from Wikipedia and VIAF to justify the form of the access point. Do you agree with this approach? Thanks, Gene Eugene Dickerson Team Leader for Cataloging Ralph J. Bunche Library U.S. Department of State Washington, DC [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (202) 647-2191 (voice) [https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ98cbmoBcllgdf0edh13ysYD1UWN40YaHnlGs_yRsSVneVOj4P]No part of any article sent to you by the Bunche Library can be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted without prior written permission of the publisher. The exception is brief quotations. This email is UNCLASSIFIED.