[Heb-NACO] PSA: 246|g--cease and desist request

[Shinohara, Jasmin]

Hello, friends,

This is a brief Public Service Announcement regarding the 246 Varying Form of Title field. Recently, the |g has seen an increase in use for the purpose of recording the author's name as it appears with varying forms of the title. There is no basis for this practice nor is it standard practice for the 246 field.

Looking in MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data by LC (or Bibliographic Formats and Standards by OCLC), the 246 subfield g is defined as "miscellaneous information". That is, miscellaneous information regarding the variant form of title, not just any miscellaneous information about the book or its author. Variant forms of author name are the domain of authority records not the bibliographic record. Please stop using the 246|g for recording the variant author name as it appears with the variant tile.

Thank you! Comments and questions always welcome,

Best wishes, Jasmin

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Jasmin Shinohara
Hebraica Cataloging Librarian
University of Pennsylvania
131 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
T. 215-746-6397
jshino at upenn.edu
Coordinator, Hebraica BIBCO, NACO, & SACO Funnels

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