If you want the real name to appear in the record itself, consider putting a note in a 500 tag. You also could do a "see" reference in the authority file.
Sandy Sharps
Regina Kane <RSKane@...> wrote:
Our MARC record from Follett, only has his real name in the summary. I hadn't thought about this before!
Hi, all. I'm working on a catalog record for the new Lemony Snicket book, nad was wondering, where, if anywhere, do I record his real name (Daniel Handler)?...
Jim, Go to http://authorities.loc.gov/ and search on Snicket, Lemony for the authorized heading. Sandy Sharps Jim Elliott <referencegcpl@...> wrote: Hi,...
If you go to http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v4=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=Penultimate%20Peril&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=12392 to look at the...
Dear Sandy, Besides academic or technical interests, there is a pragmatic reason for recording "real name" in a catalogue. After all, it is our obligation to ...
If an authority file is working properly the reader will type in the any name an author has used and be automatically directed to all the records by that...
I'm sorry I couldn't respond to this issue sooner--I've been out of town. Yes, If the authority file is working correctly, the name, whether a pen name or...
[blue] I searched for ‘Stendhal’ in LC Authority file[blue] and found 10 different entries [blue] of Tag 400, which includes 5 variant forms of names of...
I have worked with systems where the authority file was either absent or the cataloguing librarian didn't understand it enough to use it or, horribly, where it...
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