Access Points: Rules to Consider
General Rule (Rule 21.1A2)
Enter a work by one or more persons under the heading for the personal
author (see 21.4A), the principal author (see 21.6B), or the probable
personal author (see 21.5B). In some cases of shared personal authorship
(see 21.6) and mixed personal authorship (see 21.8-21.27), enter under the
heading for the person named first. Make added entries as instructed in
21.29-21.30.
Single Personal Authorship (Rule 21.4A1)
Enter a work, a collection of works, or selections
from a work
or
works by one personal author (or any reprint, reissue, etc., of such a
work) under the heading for that person whether named in the item being
catalogued or not.
Corporate Body Authorship [General] (Rule 21.1B2)
Enter work emanating from one or more corporate
bodies under
the
heading for the appropriate corporate body. (Typical examples of corporate
bodies are associations, institutions, business firms, non-profit
enterprises, governments, government agencies, projects and programs,
religious bodies, local church groups, identified by the name of the
church, and conferences, also consider.)
Works of Unknown or Uncertain Authorship or by Unnamed Groups (Rule
21.5A)
If a work is of unknown or uncertain personal
authorship or if
it emanates from a body that lacks a name, enter it under the
title.
Works of Shared Responsibility (Rule 21.6B2)
If principal responsibility is attributed to two or
three
persons
or bodies, enter under the heading for the first named of these. Make
added entries under the headings for the others. If a work is by two
principal persons or corporate bodies and one collaborating person or
body, make an added entry also for the third person or
body.
Collections and Works Produced Under Editorial Direction (Rule
21.7B1)
Enter a work falling into one of the categories
given in 21.7A
under its title if it has a collective title. Make added entries under the
headings for the compilers/editors if there are not more than three and if
they are named prominently in the item being cataloged. If there are more
than three compilers and/or editors that are prominently named, then make
an added entry under the heading for the principle compiler/editor and /or
for the one named first.
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