Abbreviations: KD = Ken Dinin; SC = Sherman Clarke; JRD = Ross Day; DAS = Daniel Starr
NOTES ON SPECIFIC FIELDS (1XX)
NACO Participants’ Manual, 2nd ed. (1996), p. 21-22 states that headings should be formulated according to AACR2, the LC Rule Interpretations, and usage found on the piece in hand and in RLIN or OCLC bibliographic records.
100: CHOICE AMONG DIFFERENT NAME FORMS
Russian names
SC comment:
nr2002-2179 - Svertchkov, Nikolai Egorovich, 1817-1898 –
http://www.horse.spb.su has him as N.G. Sverchkov (1817-1898) so we can use that as basis for reference from more official Russian form (or actually I guess we should use that as basis for heading since he's Russian) – the specific page http://www.horse.spb.su/museum/133e.htm was found via Google after I didn't find him in Grove.
Revision of NAFR20022179
040 NNMM $beng $cNNMM 100 1 Sverchkov, N. G. $q(Nikolai Grigorevich), $d1817-1898 400 1 Svertchkov, Nikolai Egorovich, $d1817-1898 400 1 Svertschkoff, Nicolas Gregorovitch, $d1817-1898 670 Leningrad Regional Association of Horse Breeding and Horsemanship Museum web site, Jan. 30, 2002 $b(N. G. Sverchkov, 1817-1898) 670 Nikolai Egorovich Svertchkov : le peintre russe du cheval, 1817-1898, c2000: $bt.p. 670 Benezit $b(Svertschkoff, Nicolas Gregorovitch)
AACR2 22.1B:
Determine the name by which a person is commonly known from the chief sources of information (see 1.0A) of works by that person issued in his or her language. If the person works in a nonverbal context (e.g., a painter, a sculptor) or is not known primarily as an author, determine the name by which he or she is commonly known from reference sources issued in his or her language or country of residence or activity.
100 : ADDITION OF FULLER FORM OF NAME TO HEADING AS QUALIFIER $q
SC comment:
nr2001-40189 - Hooper, J. T. (James Thomas), 1897-1971 - your qualifier had been "(James T.)"; no reason not to spell out middle name (if the heading had been James T. and you were building a reference, you'd use James T. but I don't think you need to match a 4XX $w) - also, there was an LC usage of "James Hooper" as a subject heading.
670 Art and artefacts of the Pacific ... 1976:|bintrod. (James Thomas Hooper; b. Sept. 1, 1897, North Wraxall, Wilts., Eng.; collector of Pacific Island art; d. Feb. 9, 1971)
NAFR200140189
100 1 Hooper, J. T. $q(James Thomas), $d1897-1971
400 1 $w nnaa $aHooper, James T.
670 The art of primitive peoples, 1953: $bt.p. (J.T. Hooper) foreword
(James T. Hooper)
670 LC database, Sept. 2, 2001 $b(hdg.: Hooper, James T.; usage: J.T.
Hooper; James Hooper)
670 Art and artefacts of the Pacific ... 1976: $bintrod. (James Thomas
Hooper; b. Sept. 1, 1897, North Wraxall, Wilts., Eng.; collector of
Pacific Island art; d. Feb. 9, 1971)
According to LCRI 22.18A, always add within parentheses the full form of an initial or abbreviation used in the heading when the full form is known with certainty.
LCRI 26.2: Referring from Variant Forms, 2) says to “trace a reference from each variant that affects the primary elements of the name. For the normal, inverted heading this mean variations in all elements to the left of the comma and in the first element to the right of the comma.” Referring from Variant Forms, 5) says, “generally, make only one reference from each variant, normally constructing it in the form in which it would be constructed if chosen as the heading.”
KD comment:
In the case above, because both an existing LC heading and bibliographic usage was found for the fuller form “James Thomas Hooper” that form is used as the qualifier rather than “James T.” If the heading had been established as: “Hooper, James T.” with usage found for “J.T.” a 400 reference would have been created for: “Hooper, J. T. (James T.)” rather than for “Hooper, J. T. (James Thomas)” according to LCRI 26.2, Referring from Variant Forms, 5). Inasmuch as the reference in the actual authority, however, is to a pre-AACR2 LC heading: “Hooper, James T.” that it is incompatible with AACR2 practice (thus coded $wnnaa) there is no reason to accept that fuller form of name in preference to the fuller form: “James Thomas Hooper” found in usage, which spells out the middle name, in accordance with LCRI 22.18A.
CORPORATE NAMES : 110, 111
110 : NAMED COLLECTIONS IN MUSEUMS
JRD question:
I have come across a NAF record for a named collection within a museum. Can you point me toward the rulings that cover this? Does it need to have some "corporate" quality to qualify?
040 TxU$dDLC
1102 Coleccion Howard Leigh
4102 Museo Frissell.$bColeccion Howard Leigh
KD comments:
The rule that recognizes named collections within museums, etc. as possible corporate entities is the following:
LCRI 21.30H
Added Entries for the Name of a Collection
"For the items relating to the holdings of a collection, the Library of Congress provides subject access to the collection. Therefore, make an added entry for the name of a collection only when the collection is a corporate body [emphasis mine] (cf. 21.1B1) that is prominently named (21.30E1)."
AACR2 21.1B1. Definition, is the rule that governs whether or not a collection is, in fact, a corporate entity:
"A corporate body is an organization or a group of persons that is identified by a particular name and that acts, or may act, as an entity [emphasis mine]. Consider a corporate body to have a name if the words referring to it are a specific appellation rather than a general description. Consider a body to have a name if, in a script and language using capital letters for proper names, the initial letters of the words referring to it are consistently capitalized [emphasis mine], and/or if, in a language using articles, the words are always associated with a definite article."
Certainly, a collection within a museum may have corporate status either as a department or as an entity having some degree of autonomy. A key criterion would be whether it has some kind of administrative structure. The question as to how the heading for the collection should be entered (directly, or subordinately) seems to depend upon usage. In some cases, usage implies subordination; in others, it seems to indicate that the collection is more or less autonomous within the institution. The exact relationship to the institution is often ambiguous; hence the heading for the collection may be established directly, qualified by the name of the institution. Even if the collection is clearly autonomous, however, its position within the institution can be acknowledged by the addition of an institutional qualifier. There also are cases in which the heading for a collection was established at a time when the collection existed as an independent entity, later having been absorbed by an institution; conversely, if the collection clearly belongs to an institution at the time when its heading is being established, that fact must be taken into account when trying to determine usage.
SUBORDINATENAFL8554731 110 20 Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum. $bCharles A. Lindbergh Collection. 410 20 Charles A. Lindbergh Collection of Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum, Inc. 670 Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum. Catalog of the Charles A. Lindbergh Collection of Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum, Inc., 1968. [the "of" implies subordination]
NAFL86820619 110 20 Victoria and Albert Museum. $bForster Collection. 410 20 Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. $bForster Collection 670 nuc86-34483: Dickens, C. Annotated proofs of the works of ... [MI] c1969 $b(hdg. on IaU rept.: Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Forster Collection; usage: Forster collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum) [the "in" implies subordination]
NAFL7838438 110 20 Somerset County Museum. $bColthurst Collection. 410 20 Colthurst Collection 670 Its The art of the Chinese potter ... 1977: $bt.p. (Colthurst Collection) p. 5 (Colthurst Collection in the Somerset County Museum) [the "in" implies subordination] 670 GB 78-11165 $b(body of entry: Colthurst Collection)
AUTONOMOUS
NAFL85801403 110 20 Robert J. Freedman Collection. 410 20 Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, Mass.). $bRobert J. Freedman Collection 410 20 Freedman Collection 670 nuc83-2927: Catalog of the Robert J. Freedman Collection, 1973? $b(hdg.on PPPM rept.: Robert J. Freedman Collection; usage: Robert J. Freedman Collection; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass.) [apparent, though indeterminate, degree of autonomy]
NAFL9146895 110 20 Layton Art Collection 410 20 Milwaukee Art Museum. $bLayton Art Collection 670 Its American furniture with related decorative arts, 1660-1830, c1991: $bCIP t.p. (Layton Art Collection) galley (Layton Art Collection, Inc.; corporate continuation of the Layton Art Center within the structure of the Milwaukee Art Musuem) [complete autonomy within the Museum]
NAFL9946154 110 2 Whittemore Collection (Fogg Art Museum) 670 670Dumbarton Oaks. Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, 1992-: $bv. 1, p. xiii (Thomas Whittemore bequeathed his collection to Harvard University in 1950, specifying that it must retain its separate identity and remain at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge) [clearly autonomous entity within the Museum]
AMBIGUOUS
NAFL88630704 110 20 Clayton Collection (Chesters Museum) 410 20 Chesters Museum. $bClayton Collection 670 nuc88-48910: Allason-Jones, L. Coventina's Well, a shrine on ... 1985 $b(hdg. on MdBJ rept.: Clayton Collection (Hexham, Northumberland); usage:Clayton Collection, Chesters Museum) [exact relationship to the institution unclear]
NAFO0038335 110 2 Rosenfeld Collection (Mystic Seaport Museum) 410 2 Mystic Seaport Museum. $bRosenfeld Collection 670 Sails & sailing, 1999:_bt.p. (Mystic Seaport's Rosenfeld Collection) [exact relationship to institution unclear]
CHANGED STATUS
NAFL5053202 110 20 John G. Johnson Collection (Philadelphia, Pa.) 410 10 Philadelphia (Pa.). $bJohn G. Johnson Collection 410 20 Philadelphia Museum of Art. $bJohn G. Johnson Collection 410 20 $wnnaa $aJohn G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia 410 20 Johnson Collection, John G. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 670 OCLC, Sept. 28, 1998 $b(hdgs.: John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia; John G. Johnson art collection, Philadelphia; usage: John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia; John G. Johnson Collection; John G. Johnson collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art) [At the time the heading was established, appears to have been an independent collection located in Philadelphia; subsequently absorbed by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. LC database indicates "from old catalog"; heading retained, but upgraded to AACR2 format. If this were being established as a new heading, it probably would be entered subordinately, as in 410-2]
NAFL86842744 110 20 Bishop Collection. 410 10 $wnnaa $aNew York. $bMetropolitan Museum of Art. $bThe Bishop Collection 410 20 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). $bBishop Collection 670 LCCN 06-1557: Its The Bishop collection, 1906 $b(hdg.: New York. Metropolitan museum of art. The Bishop collection; usage: The Bishop collection) [This was a private collection acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the time the heading was established it had already been absorbed by the Museum. Based purely on usage, the heading was established directly, without a qualifier. Additional reference sources should have been checked to ascertain current usage]
Usage for your heading seems to indicate some degree of autonomy for the collection within the museum because the place is separated from the name by a semicolon rather than being run on with a comma in the chief source; hence, no institutional qualifier is needed:
670 Arte zapoteca, Coleccion Howard Leigh, Museo Frissell, Mitla, Oaxaca, 1981: $bt.p. (Coleccion Howard Leigh; Museo Frissell)
DAS comment:
Without further evidence (which probably isn't worth looking for) I would argue that none of these (except the Layton Collection and the Johnson Collection) qualifies as a corporate body because they are all collections of objects without any corporate identity (i.e. no group of persons, no administrative structure). Note that many of the 670's are from the 1960's and 1970's which leads me to believe they are old headings, or remnants of older traditions of cataloging.
SC reply:
I haven't entirely absorbed the exegesis yet but I will say this about collections. Unless the collection acts corporately over a period of time (like, say, the Johnson Collection in Philadelphia), I'd be tempted to not treat it as a corporate body. Rather, I'd do an added (or main) entry for the museum and add a 600 for Leigh with $x Art collections.
INCLUSION / EXCLUSION OF LOCAL PLACE NAME AS PART OF HEADING FOR CORPORATE BODY
NAFO00031254 110 2 Huntington Free Library 410 2 Huntington Free Library and Reading Room 410 2 $w nnaa $aHuntington Free Library and Reading Room, New York 410 2 Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. $bLibrary 670 Picturing faith, 1999: $bt.p. (Huntington Free Library) 670 LC database, Oct. 10, 2001 $b(hdg.: Huntington Free Library and Reading Room; Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, New York; Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, New York [from old catalog]) 670 Dictionary catalog of the American Indian collection ... 1977: $bt.p. (Huntington Free Library and Reading Room) p. iii (serves as the Library for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation) 670 Field notes of Clarence B. Moore's southeastern archaeological ... 1987:bt.p. (Huntington Free Library; Library, Museum of the American Indian; Bronx, N.Y.) p. 7 (native American library collection opened in the museum's basement shortly after the museum opened in the 1920's; transferredto Huntington Free Library in 1930) 670 Huntington Free Library WWW home page, Sept. 14, 2001b(founded 1892, opened to the public in 1893; also served as the library of the Museum ofthe American Indian, Heye Foundation, from 1930 to 1990; when the Museum became the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (NMAI) in 1990, the Library was not part of that arrangement)
KD question:
670-3 t.p. had "Huntington Free Library and Reading Room" followed by "New York" on a separate line: no punctuation separating the two lines; same typography. Should "Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, New York" (w or w/o comma) be considered usage; should "New York" be disregarded, or should it be given as separate information?
SC reply: If the local place name appears on a new line or otherwise separated from the corporate name, I would not consider that different usage unless there's other usage with place name appended as in "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" followed by "Boston, Massachusetts"
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