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It's a misunderstanding to say this instruction doesn't deal with compound surnames. It was not written for cases like Michael J. Fox. No one familiar with English-language names would hesitate about how to record that. This old instruction was written for catalogers who see an initial abbreviated ...

I'm catching up on the details of this discussion, so apologies if I'm missing something. If the option currently in RDA is meant to tell you: when you see Sz. Szentpál Maria, record it as Szentpál, Maria Sz., then I think instead of A value of Person: surname is preceded by a part of a value of ...

These are actual compound surnames: Sz. Szentpál is short for Szilágyiné Szentpál i.e. original surname Szentpál married to Szilágyi. [Looks like Szilági in the text of RDA is a typo for Szilágyi.] Sometimes we record personal names under the second element of a compound surname (for example Portuguese ...

This example: Szentpál, Maria Sz. (Name appears as Sz. Szentpál, Maria) should say: (Name appears as Sz. Szentpál Maria) In actual Hungarian sources the surname will always precede the personal name without the comma that we supply in the AAP. ------------------------------ Robert Rendall ...

A non-Western example could be good to have in principle. It might not add anything that isn't already clearly illustrated by the non-Western references in the current examples, except maybe right-to-left script. ------------------------------ Robert Rendall Assistant Director for Cataloging Columbia ...

I support the proposed wording "A value of a name consists of words in two or more languages." I think that describes the situation dealt with here more precisely than the alternatives suggested: a single name that includes words in different languages. All languages have words; referring to words is ...

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