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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
1. Rules 21.4-21.28 deal with choosing the main entry heading for works with single, shared,
or mixed responsibility.

2. Subfield of the 120 tag usually contains the corporate name in direct order or the name of
a jurisdiction.

13.2 Choice and Rendering of Personal Names

A personal name is a proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises
a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a
human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation,
or infants orphaned by natural disaster for whom no written record survives. The Convention
on the Rights of the Child specifies that a child has the right from birth to a name. Certain
isolated tribes, such as the Machiguenga of the Amazon, also lack personal names.

Notes Naming conventions are strongly influenced by culture, with some cultures being
more flexible on naming than others. However, for all cultures where historical records
are available, the naming rules are known to change over time. The academic study of
personal names is anthroponymy.
The main groups of proper names singled out in fiction texts are anthroponyms and toponyms.
Anthroponyms are names, surnames, nicknames or pseudonyms – they describe the characters
in various ways (directly or indirectly; this is partly predetermined by the genre of a work of
fiction and an author’s intentions). The same can be said about toponyms. If dealing with proper
names in translated works in another language, not their translation, but rendering is taken into
consideration. Rendering of such names in a fiction text cannot be separated from the motivation
for their selection in the original; that is why both the strategy of a translator and the hierarchy
of proper name equivalents in the translation of a work are closely related with an author’s
intentions.
“In general, choose, as the basis of the heading for a person, the name by which he or she is
commonly known. This may be the person’ s real name, pseudonym, title of nobility, nickname,
initials, or other appellation.”

“Determine the name by which a person is commonly known from the chief sources of information
of works by that person issued in his or her language. If the person works in a non-verbal
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, as used in this chapter, include books and articles written about a
person.

Reference sources issued in his or her language or country of residence or activity.”
In cases when usages of a name vary in fullness from one item to another, LCRI 22.3A defines the
predominant form as the form appearing in 80% of the author’s works. If the form found on the
item being catalogued does not agree with the form already in use as the heading, choose as the
AACR2 form the form found in 80% of the author’s works as the most commonly found form
(counting forms appearing on bibliographic records in which the heading is used in both main

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