LAw issues Re: [ACAT] What Goes Into the 1xx Field?

Other common cases where catalog rules clash with "Bluebook" rules are
treaties (Bluebook cites to the citation title, not an artificial
quasi-author-title heading), and the frequent cases where someone in the
catalog-word decides to treat a work as a serial and enters it under title
rather than under author even though it has a single creator rather than
an editor (due to the unwritten rule among serial catalogs that regards
the name that is prominently on the title page as a transient editor
rather than the author).--Aaron

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, J. McRee Elrod wrote:

> Aaron said:
> 
> >One also has to take into account the various style manuals. For law,
> >for example, it is a problem when our records don't match the
> >"Bluebook" whose use is legally required in filing court papers.
> 
> Very true.  Our law firms insist that the main entry for Smith's Torts
> by Jim Jones by Smith, rather than AACR2's Jones.
> 
> 
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Aaron Wolfe Kuperman
Library of Congress, ABA USPL, Law Cataloging Section

This is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress.