| Corporate Bodies: The Inherent Problems Associated With Establishing Access Points and the Corresponding ... (2271 words) |
 | The group of persons or body that is chiefly responsible for the intellectual property of an item is given main entry, while added entry status is given to other corporate bodies or groups of persons who have secondary responsibility, and should be listed as access points in a catalogue. |
| Corporate authorship is another contentious element in the cataloguing world that began with Charles Cutter's statement that "bodies of men are to be considered as authors of works published in their name or by their authority" (Cutter 1904,69). |
| Problems in deciding the role of the corporate body, and whether or not to catalogue conference proceedings as separate entities, which will not shelf together, or keeping some conferences together for the benefit of users are only two of the many decisions that have great implications for the database and repercussions for the future. |
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