7-- Intellectual Responsibility Block

Definition and Scope of Fields

This block contains names of persons and corporate bodies having some form of intellectual responsibility for the creation of the item described. Intellectual responsibility is defined broadly to include all persons, corporate bodies or families associated with an item including publishers when an access point is required.

Fields

70- Personal Names

700 Personal Name - Primary Intelectual Responsability

701 Personal Name - Alternative Intelectual Responsability

702 Personal Name - Secondary Intelectual Responsability

71- Corporate Body and Meeting Names

710 Corporate Body Name - Primary Intellectual Responsability

711 Corporate Body Name - Alternative Intellectual Responsability

712 Corporate Body Name - Secundary Intellectual Responsability

72- Family Names

720 Family Name - Primary Intellectual Responsability

721 Family Name - Alternative Intellectual Responsability

722 Family Name - Secundary Intellectual Responsability

730 Name - Intellectual Responsability

Notes on Field Contents

One person, corporate body or family may be selected as having primary responsibility. In some cataloguing codes this is called the main entry. Any other persons, corporate bodies or families having equal responsibility are considered to have alternative responsibility. If a given cataloguing code does not embody the concept of main entry, all persons, corporate bodies and families having equal responsibility may be coded as if they had alternative responsibility. Persons, corporate bodies or families having tangential responsibility (e.g., editors, translators, illustrators, etc.) may be coded as having secondary responsibility. If it is not possible to determine any level of responsibility, all names should be coded as alternative.

Main entry under title:

In records catalogued according to codes recognising the concept of main entry, when no personal or corporate name has been specified as having primary responsibility for an item, it can be assumed that main entry is under title. Access points for persons or bodies associated with the item are given in the alternative or secondary responsibility fields as appropriate. For example, multiple authors, which preclude an author main entry under some cataloguing codes, would each be considered as having alternative responsibility; whereas the editor of a collection (which is entered under title by some cataloguing codes) would be considered to have secondary responsibility. When the main entry is under title, the main entry will be found in field 500 if present, otherwise in field 200.