If it is a fake name for a real place (rather than a composite of places), and you can determine what that place is,  you would use the real name in the NAR a 451 from the fake name.  I don’t think you could establish the fake name in LCSH if it is for a real place (though you could establish a subject heading for a fake place).

 

Aaron Kuperman

LC … Law Cataloging Section

This is not an official communication from my employer

 

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Sharon Reidt
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] pseudonymous geographic name heading

 

It would need to be a 650, I believe as it is “fictitious.”

 

Susan

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Denis Brunke
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 9:38 AM
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Subject: [PCCLIST] pseudonymous geographic name heading

 

Our university press person asked me about a subject heading (for a geographic place) in the CIP block for a new book. The name in question is:

 

n  88194374
Kalikaha (Côte d'Ivoire)

 

The author of the new book had published an earlier work on this town back in 1998, prompting DLC to create the above authorized name.

It turns out this place name is a pseudonym; the author wanted to protect the villagers in the town where she does ethnographic research, so she uses a pseudonymous name (which is clearly stated in this new book).

 

My question: is it OK to have a pseudonymous geographic name in the name authority file? Should I just add a 670 field clarifying that this name is pseudonymous?

 

 

Denis Brunke

Original Cataloger

University of Wisconsin--Madison

312 Memorial Library

728 State Street

Madison, WI 53706

Phone: (608) 262-3529