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100 _1 Hooks, Bell.
245 10 We real cool : ǂb Black men and masculinity / ǂc Bell Hooks.
I find it interesting and somewhat irritating that cataloging practice apparently denies bell hooks her preferred capitalization of her name. I can understand why perhaps the authority file, which controls the form of the name found in the 100 field, needs to be standardized on the "usual" capitalization for data-entry-conformity reasons (as indeed the Wikipedia article I linked to capitalizes "Bell" in the URL). But the statement of responsibility (the part after "/ ǂc" in the 245 field) is supposed to be as on the item, with the exception of dropping titles (only names as such are used). It's lowercased in the LC Cataloging-in-Publication block on the back of the title page, which is where the data for these fields usually gets initially slurped from, which probably means someone in the train DLC ǂb eng ǂc DLC ǂd UKM ǂd BAKER ǂd BTCTA ǂd YDXCP ǂd OCLCQ ǂd DEBBG ǂd OCL ǂd OCLCQ ǂd RV8 changed it at some point.* Pfeh.
I wonder if the upcoming switch from AACR2 to RDA**, which is really big on "transcribe what you see" to the point that people transcribe TITLE PAGE STUFF IN ALL CAPS JUST THAT WAY MAKING IT RATHER HARD TO READ, will allow "bell hooks" in this instance.
I think I may change it in our local copy of the record anyway. If it was good enough for LC when providing the CIP block, it's good enough for me.
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* Except for "eng", which is a language code, these are called "OCLC symbols" and identify various cataloging institutions.
** Sets of cataloging rules. Don't worry about it.
245 10 We real cool : ǂb Black men and masculinity / ǂc Bell Hooks.
I find it interesting and somewhat irritating that cataloging practice apparently denies bell hooks her preferred capitalization of her name. I can understand why perhaps the authority file, which controls the form of the name found in the 100 field, needs to be standardized on the "usual" capitalization for data-entry-conformity reasons (as indeed the Wikipedia article I linked to capitalizes "Bell" in the URL). But the statement of responsibility (the part after "/ ǂc" in the 245 field) is supposed to be as on the item, with the exception of dropping titles (only names as such are used). It's lowercased in the LC Cataloging-in-Publication block on the back of the title page, which is where the data for these fields usually gets initially slurped from, which probably means someone in the train DLC ǂb eng ǂc DLC ǂd UKM ǂd BAKER ǂd BTCTA ǂd YDXCP ǂd OCLCQ ǂd DEBBG ǂd OCL ǂd OCLCQ ǂd RV8 changed it at some point.* Pfeh.
I wonder if the upcoming switch from AACR2 to RDA**, which is really big on "transcribe what you see" to the point that people transcribe TITLE PAGE STUFF IN ALL CAPS JUST THAT WAY MAKING IT RATHER HARD TO READ, will allow "bell hooks" in this instance.
I think I may change it in our local copy of the record anyway. If it was good enough for LC when providing the CIP block, it's good enough for me.
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* Except for "eng", which is a language code, these are called "OCLC symbols" and identify various cataloging institutions.
** Sets of cataloging rules. Don't worry about it.