[LM_NET] Cataloging question

[David Lininger <tss003@TNP.MORE.NET>]

I have before me two copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The first 
one is a Scholastic paperback, and credits Mark Twain as the author. It 
has a Call Number of FIC TWA. The second copy appears to be a hardback 
rebind of a paperback, and lists Samuel L. Clemens as the author. It has 
a Call Number of FIC CLE. I suppose I could leave the two books as they 
are, on the theory that if someone is looking for the title, and 
remembers that Mark Twain was really Samuel Clemens, they might go to 
CLE and would then find the book, while the student who didn't remember 
that would go to TWA and also find the book. On the other hand, I think 
I'd rather have the two copies side by side. It seems to me that I 
remember that his books ought to be cataloged as TWAIN, no matter what 
the title page says, but I also remember something about cataloging "as 
is" rather than "as if" so I need some advice. Which way do you go in 
your library and why?

Thanks.


-- 
David Lininger, kb0zke,
MS/HS librarian
Hickory County R-1 Schools
Urbana, MO 65767
417-993-4226
tss003 at tnp dot more dot net

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