School of Library and Information Science
21:122 Organization of Information Resources I
Summer 2004
Gregory Cotton, instructor

Note: This is a graded lab. You will, of course, work independently, but you may use notes, any printed references and resources, or you may enlist the aid of the teaching assistant or the instructor (although you should not expect definitive answers from this venue...). Collegial support is strictly forbidden. Violators will be folded, spindled and mutilated.

Note Further: Should you inadvertently "submit" before you are ready, rest assured that I will grade the last submission you make.

Purpose: To provide the opportunity to go through the process of determining the choice and form of name for a personal author, and that of creating an authority record.

Procedure: Create the appropriate authority record for use when determining main entry for the work shown on the facsimile title page for this exercise in the lab pack.

1. The authority record must be complete. That means that you should include all (if any) 400 fields/"see from" references as well as all (if any) 500 fields/"see also from" references on the record. Apply the criteria given in AACR2, 22.2A. Remember that you are being graded on the evidence of research, logical thought, and attention to ACCR2 as well as the actual choice of name(s).
2. You may use the Kyd/Harbage example in the lab pack as an exhaustive model. Your problem may not lend itself to such extensive research. Explore your problem as far as time and resources allow, however--the more pieces you find, the more complete the puzzle.
3. You are engaged in three tasks:
   a. to uncover all the variant forms of name(s) under which the author wrote,
   b. to decide which name(s) is/are legal as main entries and thus should be included on the authority record, and
   c. to decide what is the appropriate main entry for this particular work.
4. Consult, among others, the following sources:
   a. OCLC name authority file.
   b. a handbook of pseudonyms, noting title and page number 
   c. a biographical dictionary or directory, ditto
   d. another reference source from this field(i.e., something that provides information about literary authors).
   Note: Be sure to interpret the typographic conventions of each reference source correctly. If you encounter "... see Harbage, A.B.", that means that "Harbage, A.B." is this work's choice of name for this character. Note further that you will need to provide all appropriate citations to the works you consult, including OCLC authority record numbers.
5. You will be evaluated on:
   (50 pts) your authority record, which will include your choice and form of name to be used as main entry for the work in question and the references you will use to direct patrons from the unused form(s) of this name to the established form,
   (25 pts) your record of research, including citations for sources checked,
   (25 pts) your record of the AACR2 rules that guided your choice(s).