Re: [gutvol-d] PG catalog question
Library cataloguers have been handling this problem since time immemorial with "See" and "See also" references. The author's name on the PG book should be the same as the name on the title page. Dick Adicks
On 4/12/06, Dick Adicks <radicks@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Library cataloguers have been handling this problem since time immemorial with "See" and "See also" references. The author's name on the PG book should be the same as the name on the title page.
Library cataloguers have been sorting books under one unified name for a long time. The Library of Congress, for example, has empty "See" references to the normalized name. To do otherwise is extra complexity; 99% of the time it will just be a variation on which initials are expanded, and the author's name is likely to get varied among otherwise trivial editions.
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Dick Adicks wrote:
Library cataloguers have been handling this problem since time immemorial with "See" and "See also" references. The author's name on the PG book should be the same as the name on the title page.
Dick Adicks
The phrase "author's name on the PG book" is rather ambiguous. For the purposes of Project Gutenberg, places you see the author's name are: 1) In the asterisk line at the very beginning of a PG file (sometimes in shortened form) 2) In the PG header metadata 3) In the "title page area" (usually, but not always) 4) In the "posted note" which officially announces a new release 5) In the gutindex list 6) In the PG online catalog Andrew
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