Descriptive Cataloging with RDA

Title and Statement of Responsibility

Part II

Title page Title page verso

2.3.4.3 Record other title information that appears on the same source of information as the title proper.

D.1.2.2 Precede each unit of other title information by a colon.

020 0394412524245 _ _ The wild boy of Burundi : ‡b a study of an

outcast child / ‡c Harlan Lane & Richard Pillard.250 First edition264 □ 1 New York : ‡b Random House, ‡c [1978].300 xiv, 188 pages, [8] pages of plates : ‡b illustrations, map ; ‡c 24 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 500 Foreword by B.F. Skinner.500 Includes index.

RDA 2.3.4.3, D.1.2.2RDA 2.3.4.3, D.1.2.2

Title page Title page verso

020 0307136566020 0307470024 (invalid)245_ _Birds of North America : ‡b a guide to field

identification / ‡c by Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Bruun, and Herbert S. Zim ; illustrated by Arthur Singer.

264 □ 1 New York : ‡b Golden Press, ‡c [1966].300 340 pages : ‡b color illustrations, color maps ; ‡c 19 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 4901 Golden field guide series504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-327) and index.830 0Golden field guide series

Other title information can include any phrase appearing with a title proper that is indicative of: the character, contents, etc., of the resource

RDA 2.3.4.1RDA 2.3.4.1

Statement of Responsibility

2.4.1.1A statement of responsibility is a statement relating to the identification and/or function of any persons, families, or corporate bodies responsible for the creation of, or contributing to the realization of, the intellectual or artistic content of a resource.

A statement of responsibility sometimes includes words or phrases that are neither names nor linking words.

Title page Title page verso

2.4.1.4 Transcribe a statement of responsibility as it appears on the source of information

2.4.2.3 Record statements of responsibility relating to title proper by applying the basic instructions at 2.4.1

D.1.2.2 Precede the first statement of responsibility by a diagonal slash.

020 0670805149245_ _ Lake Wobegon days / ‡c Garrison Keillor.264 □ 1 New York, N.Y. : ‡b Viking, ‡c 1985.300 x, 337 pages : ‡b illustrations ; ‡c 24 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 500 “Portions of this book appeared originally

in The Atlantic monthly”—Title page verso.

RDA 2.4.1.4, 2.4.2.3, and D.1.2.2RDA 2.4.1.4, 2.4.2.3, and D.1.2.2

Title page Title page verso

020 0670841153245 _ _ Against the wind / ‡c J.F. Freedman.264 □ 1 New York : ‡b Viking, ‡c 1991.300 vii, 423 pages ; ‡c 24 cm. 336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier

RDA 2.4.2.3RDA 2.4.2.3

Title page Title page verso

245_ _ Digging up the past / ‡c Sir Leonard Woolley.250 Revised edition264 □ 1 New York. : ‡b T. Y. Crowell, ‡c 1954.300 xiii, 125 pages, 32 pages of plates : ‡b illustrations ; ‡c 20 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 500 Includes index.

[Regarding inclusion of a title of nobility or British term of honor see example “by Sir Richard Acland”]

[For this person “Sir” is a British term of honor]

RDA 2.4.1.4RDA 2.4.1.4

Title page Title page verso

245_ _ Famous speeches of the eight Chicago anarchists / ‡c [compiled by] Lucy Parsons.

246 _ 8 Speeches of the eight Chicago anarchists264 □ 1 New York : ‡b Arno Press, ‡c 1969.300 121 pages : ‡b portraits ; ‡c 24 cm. 336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 490 1 Mass violence in America500 Originally published: 2nd edition Chicago : L.E.

Parsons, 1910. With new editorial note.500 Speeches by August Spies, Michael Schwab,

Oscar Neebe, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, George Engel, Samuel Fielden and Albert R. Parsons.

830 0 Mass violence in America

Clarification of RoleAdd a word or short phrase if necessary to clarify the role of a person, family, or corporate body named in a statement of responsibility.Indicate that the information was taken from a source outside the resource itself (see 2.2.4)

RDA 2.4.1.7RDA 2.4.1.7

Title page Title page verso

020 0874715008245 _ _ A journal of the plague year : ‡b being

observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences ... during the last great visitation in 1665 / ‡c written by a citizen

who continued all the while in London.264 □ 1 London : ‡b William Clowes & Sons, ‡c 1974.264 □ 2 Totowa, New Jersey : ‡b Distributed in the USA by Rowman & Littlefield 300 302 pages : ‡b facsimile ; ‡c 24 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 490 1 The Shakespeare Head edition of the novels &

selected writings of Daniel Defoe500 Originally published: Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1928.830 4 The Shakespeare Head edition of the novels &

selected writings of Daniel Defoe

No Person, Family, or Corporate Body Named in the Statement of Responsibility—Record a statement of responsibility even if no person, family, or corporate body is named in that statement.

RDA 2.4.1.9RDA 2.4.1.9

Title page Title page verso

Subtitle

No statement of responsibility

020 0786863323245_ _Red Lobster, white trash and the Blue lagoon : ‡b Joe Queenan’s America.250 First edition.264 □ 1 New York : ‡b Hyperion, ‡c [1998].300 194 pages ; ‡c 24 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 500 Includes index.

2.3.4.3 [See example : “the maple sugar paintings of Eastman Johnson”]

2.4.1.4 [Statement of responsibility is a transcription element]

[Joe Queenan is the author.]

RDA 2.3.4.3, 2.4.1.4RDA 2.3.4.3, 2.4.1.4

Title page Title page verso

020 0517411393245_ _The best of Robert Benchley / ‡c by Robert

Benchley ; with illustrations by Peter Arno, Herbert F. Roese, Adam John Barth and others.

264 □ 1 New York : ‡b Avenel Books, ‡c 1983.300 353 pages : ‡b illustrations ; ‡c 24 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier

Name of creator appears separately on the source of information as well as in the title proper.

RDA 2.4.2.3RDA 2.4.2.3

Title page Title page verso

020 0879720638245 _ _ Irving Wallace : ‡b a writer’s profile / ‡c by John

Leverence ; with an introduction by Jerome Weidman ; an interview by Sam L. Grogg, Jr. ;

and an afterword by Ray B. Browne. 264 □ 1 Bowling Green, Ohio : ‡b Popular Press, ‡c 1974.300 454 pages : ‡b illustrations ; ‡c 24 cm.336 text ‡ b txt ‡2 rdacontent337 unmediated ‡ b n ‡2 rdamedia338 volume ‡ b nc ‡2 rdacarrier 490 1 Profiles in popular culture ; ‡v number 1500 Includes index.830 0Profiles in popular culture ; ‡v number 1

2.4.1.6 If there is more than one statement of responsibility, record the statements in the order indicated by the sequence, layout, or typography of the source of information from which the corresponding title, edition, or series information is taken.

D.1.2.2 Precede each subsequent statement of responsibility by a semicolon.

RDA 2.4.1.6, D.1.2.2RDA 2.4.1.6, D.1.2.2