Re: A real example: A page at the BPL

From: Bryan Baldus <bryan.baldus_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:24:22 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 On Monday, March 16, 2009 6:26 AM, Sharon Foster wrote:
>What's so hard about presenting that data as
>Title: Barack Obama: this improbable quest
>Author: John K. Wilson

For something like LCCN 2005000452 (ISBN 1402711158): Othello /$ca retelling by Adam McKeown ; illustrated by Sterling Hundley.
Will the display be
Author: Adam McKeown (Adam N.)
or
Author: a retelling by Adam McKeown ; illustrated by Sterling Hundley.

Will Hundley appear as
Author: Sterling Hundley
even though Sterling is the illustrator?

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On LCCN 2008029617 (ISBN 9781844837212): William Shakespeare on the art of love :$bthe illustrated edition of the most beautiful love passages in Shakespeare's plays and poetry /$cedited by Michael Best.
main entry is given to Shakespeare, William,$d1564-1616, with a uniform title (240) Selections.$f2008.
Would the 700 for Best be translated into Author: Michael Best, even though he is really the editor?

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On LCCN 90183133, CBS's reply to plaintiff's memorandum in opposition to CBS's motion to dismiss and for summary judgment /$cDavid Boies, Stuart W. Gold, attorneys for defendant CBS Inc.
should CBS be listed as "Author"?

On LCCN 90231372, The trial, with the whole of the evidence, between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, bart. ... plaintiff, and George Maurice Bissett, Esq., defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife :$bbefore the Right Hon. William, Earl of Mansfield, and a special jury, in His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the 21st of February, 1782 /$ctaken in short hand by Robert Pye Donkin ...
should Worsley, Richard,$cSir,$d1751-1805,  be listed as "Author"?

Bryan Baldus
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Received on Mon Mar 16 2009 - 09:25:17 EDT