[Heb-NACO] A question re. the draft of Hebraica Cataloging

[Robert M. TALBOTT]

Good people of the Heb-NACO-sphere:

As I've been reviewing the draft of the HC RDA, something keeps popping up
with regard to the structure of 245's with parallel titles, to wit:

A. p.43  Emek ha-shaveh = $b Emek hashave : mahzor shirim

structurally, that's 245##$a [romanized] = $b [parallel $a] : [romanized
sub title]

I've seen this construction before and it has pleased me not one bit, and I
doubt that I'm alone.

A formulation that I like much better because it more closely approximates
my algebraic approach to cataloging:

B 245## Emek ha-shaveh : $b mahzor shirim = Emek hashave*

The Bob-pleasing structure is

245## [$a romanized] : [$b rom. sub.] = [parallel of $a]*

My questions:

1) Is structure A endorsed anywhere in RDA explicitly?

2) Is the choice of structures a matter of cataloger's judgement?

*I'll have you know that I would shamelessly include the parallel sub-title
as well.

B
-- 

Bob Talbott

Principal cataloger/Hebraica cataloger

UC Berkeley

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Berkeley, CA 94720


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