LC-PCC policy statements for preferred name of family
Prerecording
Prerecording
LC/PCC Core.
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Family elements.
Recording
Recording an unstructured description
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Families with two or more names
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment. If a name of family has changed (including changes from one language to another), choose the earlier name as a preferred name for use with resources associated with the earlier name. Choose the later name as a preferred name for use with resources associated with the later name.
Predominant name of family
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Contracted and expanded names of family
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Names of family in two or more languages
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Greek, Latin, and other names of family
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: In most cases, apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Roman names of family
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: In most cases, apply the option. If the name of a Roman family of classical times has become well established in a form in English in English-language reference sources, choose that form as the preferred name.
Names of family consisting of a given name or a word or phrase
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: In most cases, apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: In most cases, apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Names of family in a non-preferred script
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. The preferred script is the Latin script. When transliteration is necessary, follow the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and American Library Association, noting the exceptions.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if the name is likely to appear in general English-language reference sources. Search Academic American Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia Americana, and the New Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option. Transliterate the name according to the scheme for the original language of most of the works.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: In most cases, apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Names of family in two or more spellings
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Data provenance
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply this option if 1) the metadata has been taken from a source other than the manifestation being described and there is a requirement to record that source OR 2) if directed to do so by other LC/PCC documentation.
Recording a structured description
Recording an identifier
Recording an IRI
Document Date: 2025/07/12
Document: https://stage.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-e9e09f74-9038-3073-87a7-214d2ca10720