Bibliographic Processing Cataloging Rules
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RDA General Policy Statement
Accept personal name headings as they appear in copy.
When personal name headings are missing from copy, search the Library of Congress Authority File (LCAF) and input the authorized form of heading, if found.
If no authorized form of the personal name exists in LCAF, or if a match is questionable, refer to the appropriate original cataloger.
See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for the following information:
X00, 100, 700, 800 for indicators, tagging and spacing rules
X00 Titles and Other Associated Terms for a listing of titles used in |c subfield
See Appendix A of this document for a list of examples of single forenames
Enter the surname followed by the forename, separated by comma space ( , ^ ).
Enter a space between elements of the name.
100 1# Griffith, Maria Hellena.
Enter a space between initials that represent personal names. Do not enter a space between other types of initials.
100 1# Hyatt, J. B.
Include accents and other diacritical marks appearing in a name.
source Eliphas Lévi100 1# Lévi, Eliphas.
Retain hyphens unless they are used on the source to join a person's forename to the surname.
source George-Brown100 1# Brown, George.
When more than one form of a name is present on the item, choose the name by which a person is known as determined from the piece in hand. However, if a person is referred to both by initials (e.g., G. W. House) and by a fuller name (e.g., George W. House), input the fuller form.
Jimmy Carter
not James Earl Carter
D. W. Griffith
not David Wark Griffith
G. W. House
or George W. House
choose:
George W. House
Enter a name that contains a single surname (last name) under that surname; that is, input the name by placing the surname first in the field.
100 1# Carter, Jimmy.
700 1# Griffith, D. W.
A personal name is called a "compound surname" when the last name consists of two or more proper names. If the two (or more) sections of the compound name are hyphenated, the hyphenated name should always be considered a compound surname regardless of the language.
100 1# Day-Lewis, Cecil.
700 1# Henry-Bordeaux, Paule.
If the parts of the compound name are not hyphenated, the language of the name affects the way it is formulated, i.e., which part of the name is considered the surname. The rules listed below indicate the correct form of entry for non-hyphenated compound names, and names that contain prefixes. Note the indicators that are used in each situation.
Enter names that look like compound names under the last element of the name.
100 1# Adams, John Crawford.
100 1# Lee, Joseph Jenkins.
If a name contains a prefix, enter under the prefix.
100 1# De la Mare, Walter.
100 1# Van Buren, Martin.
700 1# Le Gallienne, Eva.
If the name contains the prefix "Ver", enter under the prefix. Otherwise, enter under the last element of the name.
700 1# Ver Boven, Daisy. [NOT Boven, Daisy Ver.]
100 1# Aa, Peter van der. [NOT van der Aa, Peter.]
100 1# Beeck, Leo op der. [NOT op der Beeck, Leo.]
If the name contains the prefix "La", "Le", "Du", or "Des", enter under the prefix. Otherwise, enter under the last element of the name.
100 1# Le Rouge, Gustave
100 1# La Fontaine, Jean de.
100 1# Des Granges, Charles-Marc.
700 1# Gaulle, Charles de.
700 1# Aubigné, Theodore Agrippa d'.
If the name contains the prefix "Am", "Vom", "Zum" or "Zur", enter under the prefix. Otherwise, enter under the element of the name following the prefix.
100 1# Vom Ende, Erich.
100 1# Zur Linde, Otto.
100 1# Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
If the name contains a prefix, enter under the prefix.
100 1# D'Annunzio, Gabriele.
100 1# Della Volpaia, Eufrosino.
100 1# Lo Savio, Niccolo.
700 1# Li Greci, Gioacchino.
Enter under the last element of the name, unless that element is "Neto", "Netto", "Filho", "Sobrinho", or "Junior". Then enter the last two elements as a compound surname.
100 1# Silva, Ovidio Saraiva de Carvalho e.
100 1# Castro Sobrinho, Antonio Ribeiro de.
700 1# Marques Junior, Henrique.
Scandinavian Languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish Danish) If the name contains the prefix "De", "De la", or "La", enter under the prefix. Otherwise, enter under the element of the name following the prefix.
100 1# De Geer, Gerard.
100 1# La Cour, Jens Lassen.
If the surname is compound (including two surnames connected by "y"), enter under the first element of the compound surname.
700 1# Cotarelo y Mori, Emilio.
If the name contains a prefix that consists only of the word La, Las, or Los, enter under the prefix. Other-wise, enter under the element of the name following the prefix.
100 1# Figueroa, Francisco de
100 1# Las Heras, Manuel Antonio.
Enter a name consisting of initials or separate letters under those initials or letters in the order and the form in which they appear in the item.
100 0# H. D.
If the name by which a person is known consists only of a surname, add the word or phrase that appears with the name in the item if available.
100 1# Moses,|cGrandma.
100 1# Read,|cMiss.
700 1# Seuss,|cDr.
If the name by which a person is known consists only of a forename or a forename preceded by a term of address or title, enter under the forename. Treat other words as additions to the forenames (|c).
100 0# Aristoteles.
100 0# Plato.
source: Chef Pierre
700 0# Pierre,|cChef.
source: Cousin Fannie
100 0# Fannie,|cCousin.
Enter in direct order a name consisting of a phrase that does not contain a real name.
100 0# Dr. X.
100 0# Father Time.
Also enter in direct order a phrase that consists of a forename or forenames preceded by words other than a term of address.
100 0# Poor Richard.
700 0# Boy George.
100 0# Calamity Jane.
If the British title of honor (i.e., "Sir", "Dame", "Lord" and "Lady") appears with the name in the item, include it in subfield |c.
100 1# Hess, Myra,|cDame.
700 1# Beecham, Thomas,|cSir.
Include in subfield |c the term of address of a married woman if it appears in the item and if she is identified only by her husband's name.
100 1# Ward, Humphrey,|cMrs.
Aesopus
Apolonius Rhodius
Apuleius Madaurensis
Archimedes
Aristoteles
Aristophanes
Democritus
Demosthenes
Epictetus
Epicurus
Euclides
Euripides
Galenus
Gautama Buddha
Hannibal
Herodotus
Hippocrates
Homerus
Isocrates
Jesus Christ
Martinus
Origenes
Pausanias
Petronius Arbiter
Philo Judaeus
Philoctetes
Pindarus
Plato
Plotinus
Plutarchus
Proclus Diadochus
Pythagoras
Quintus Veranius
Sappho
Socrates
Sophocles
Thucydides
Xenophon
Note: This list is not complete. It is intended only for use as a training tool.
