Dear Laura and All : Hi -- no, in this case you were not dreaming (smile!). Within the MARC Authority Format, the 672 and 673 fields are available and in use for just this purpose: 672 field <https://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad672.html> = Title related to the Entity 673 field <https://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad673.html> = Title not related to the Entity Cheers, Everett Allgood On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:40 AM Laura E. Wright <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Kathie's point reminds me that I thought a new MARC field was proposed in > which known titles associated with a person could be recorded. This would > be especially helpful for authors who publish in more than one area. Did I > dream this? > > Best, > Laura > > Laura Wright (she/her/hers) > Assistant Director, Metadata Production > Cornell University Library > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kathie Coblentz <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 4:54 PM > Subject: Re: CB merges > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:20:03 +0000, Young, William C < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > [...] And what if the information was not used by patrons? Is it not > useful for the catalogers who come after us?? Are we not users too? > > I'm with you 100% on this. The more data there is in an authority record, > the less likely it is that catalogers will confuse that person or corporate > body with another with the same or a similar name. And as time goes on and > more and more records are added to World Cat, I am more and more astonished > by how often people with the same or a similar name can be found writing on > the same or a similar topic in the same time period, even when the name at > first blush would seem to be an unusual one. To say nothing of how often > people with the same or a similar name who write on completely different > topics, or lived at completely different times, nevertheless get confused > by catalogers! > > I do wish the lay users of library catalogs had direct access to this > data. But they are still helped indirectly when catalogers get the right > names attached to to the right resources, enabling them to find what they > are looking for. > > -- > Kathie Coblentz > Rare Materials Cataloger > Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs > The New York Public Library > Stephen A. Schwarzman Building > 476 Fifth Avenue, Rm. 313, New York, NY 10018 > nypl.org > > My opinions, not NYPL's > -- ************************ Everett Allgood Authorities Librarian & Principal Serials Cataloger New York University Libraries [log in to unmask] 212 998 2488 "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Louis D. Brandeis