In this section:

1. Change in AACR2/content designation

2. Title access to independent titles

3. Title access to 245 title string

4. Models illustrating title access

1. Change in AACR2/content designation:

For items without a collective title, Amendments 1993 to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules changed the placement of the general material designation ("GMD"), which in turn changed the manner of providing title access in such cases. The GMD now follows the first title transcribed instead of the last. That change stimulated a change in the content designation for items without a collective title: the second title immediately adjacent to the first is now treated as "remainder of title" ( 245 Title Statement , subfield $b ). This change, effective 1994, applies in all cases even when a GMD is not being assigned to the item.

image\POINT_BL.gif  Examples With and Without GMD

This change in content designation meant some changes in the existing policy on providing access to the titles being recorded in the title and statement of responsibility area, since the titles immediately following the first are no longer included in the same subfield as the first ( subfield $a ). Subfield $a now ends before any other data element that follows the first title (the GMD, the second title, the first parallel title, the first other title information, the first statement of responsibility).

2. Title access to independent titles:

Make a title added entry for each title being recorded if there are two or three titles. Usually make a 245-derived title added entry for the first. The second and third titles must be provided for explicitly by using the redefined field 740 (Added Entry - Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title) and recording value "2" in the second indicator position (Analytical entry). (Cf. The examples in subsection 3. Title access to 245 title string below). If there are four or more titles being recorded, make a 245-derived title added entry only for the first.

Note:

image\POINT_BL.gif Record in a 246 field varying forms of an independent title occurring in a 245 $a subfield.

image\POINT_BL.gif Record in a 740 field varying forms of an independent title occurring elsewhere.

3. Title access to 245 title string:

Previous LC practice: For the period February 1994 to November 2002, LC made a title added entry for the complement of titles immediately adjacent to one another appearing at the beginning of the title and statement of responsibility area and treated as a unit by recording the titles without the GMD but with the prescribed punctuation used in the title and statement of responsibility area. For the period February 1994-November 1995, field 740 0# was used to provide this added entry; from December 1995 to November 2002 field 246 3# was used. As of December 2002, LC follows the current practice described above in 2. Title access to independent titles. There will be no systematic attempt to update records done under the previous practice.

Examples

4. Models illustrating title access:

The following models illustrate the various conditions of title access that may occur for items without a collective title. These models are LIMITED to showing the various patterns that may occur. They do NOT include any controlled forms of added entries, e.g., controlled analytic added entries, that might also be appropriate.

Examples

See also:

21.30J.  Titles