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Chapter 21
Choice of Access Points
21.0B:CSB45
Sources for determining access points
Generally determine access points for an item from its chief source (or
chief source substitute) and from statements appearing prominently (cf. 0.8). When
statements appearing in the chief source, or statements appearing prominently, are
ambiguous or insufficient, use information appearing in the contents of the item or
appearing outside the item for determining access points. Note that for works entered
under certain rules (e.g., 21.4A1), it does not matter where the information appears.
21.0D:CSB104
Optional addition. Designations of function
Option Decision
LC practice: Do not apply the designations of function specified by AACR2.
Exception: The designation "ill." will be added to the headings for illustrators
occurring in added entries on bibliographic records for resources intended for children.
Note that LC does apply the part of the rule that provides for using
designations in specialist or archival cataloging from standard lists appropriate to the
material being cataloged. For example, in cataloging rare books, relator terms from MARC
Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions may be used in subfield $e of
universal and copy-specific added entries.
21.1A2:CSB15
General rule
Consider the entire run of a serial before entering it under the heading for
a person. If different issues of the serial are known to have been or are likely to be
created by different persons, do not enter the work under the heading for a person.
Enter a serial under the heading for a person only in instances in which one
person is so closely connected to or involved with the serial that the publication seems
unlikely to continue without that person. Some types of serials that might sometimes be
considered to be unlikely to continue without the person named as author are
a) serials for which the same person is named as both author and publisher;
the title;
b) serials that carry the whole name or part of the name of the person in
c) serials that do not emanate from a corporate body that might assure that
the serial is continued.
Always lean toward not entering a serial under the heading for a person.
21.1B1:CSB92
General rule. Definition
Conferences
Include in the definition of a conference in footnote 1 any named meeting
that is entered directly under its own name and any named meeting that is entered
subordinately to a heading for a corporate body.