[tblcats] rule change?

[J. Shore]

> Did I miss a rule change?  LTI, the company we use for authority work,
> just sent a bunch of name authority changes where the only difference is
> changing the first indicator from a 2 to a 1 for compound last names.
>
> IE:  100 1_ Ainaud de Lasarte, Juan
>      100 1_ Baer-Brown, Leslie
>      100 1_ Burle Marz, Roberto
>
> I know I don't keep up on my reading but is this correct?  If so, when
> did it happen?

It happened effective January 1, 2000.

>From the LC cataloging newsletter December 1999 issue
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/lccn/lccn0714.html#4) :
"The Cataloging Policy and Support Office has posted the guidelines to be
followed by LC catalogers when they implement a
previously adopted MARC 21 change beginning January 1, 2000.

In 1996 the first indicator value 2 (Multiple surname) in X00 fields in MARC
21 was made obsolete, and value 1 (Single
surname) was redefined as "surname" to be used for headings with either
single or multiple surnames."


J.

J. Shore
Graduate Assistant - Cataloging
University of South Florida Library, Tampa, FL
jshore@lib.usf.edu