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If both terms are needed to distinguish the person they would go in one $c.  For example, if there are two people named Wei Wang who both are law teachers but with different specialties, you would need both terms, otherwise the information can live happily in 372 and 374 fields in the authority record.

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Ed M. Kazzimir
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 1:23 PM
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Subject: [PCCLIST] Multiple Professions/Occupations/Fields of Activity in Personal Name Access Point

 

When it is necessary to identify a person by two professions or fields of activity in a qualifier, are these terms entered into a single $c or in separate subfields?

 

For example, there is this name authority record by LC, where the two :

     040  DLC ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc DLC
     100  1_ Wang, Wei ǂc (Law teacher) ǂc (Writer on industrial laws and legislation)

 

Are there separate $c subfields because "Law teacher" is technically an occupation and "Writer on ..." is a field of activity?

 

There are a lot of existing authority records where the professions/occupations/etc. are enclosed in a single subfield, such as:


     100  1_ Smith, Simon ǂc (Teacher and poet)

 

The MARC authority format allows for repeated $c subfields, but the example given shows different types of usage (different types of titles and other terms):

 

      100

0_ $a Black Foot, $c Chief, $d d. 1877 $c (Spirit)

 

I cannot find instructions guiding us to a preferred method.  I do not see an example in RDA (and LC-PCC PS) 9.19.1.6.  Should the Smith example above be?

 

     100  1_ Smith, Simon ǂc (Teacher) ǂc (Poet)

 

 

 

Ed Kazzimir

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