How to deal with a publication having its own title (Sefer Sam
Hayim) but consisting of part(s) of a larger work,
"Sefer Tokhahat Hayim"?
The rule dealing with such a situation
is 25.6A1:
"If a separately cataloged part of a work has a title
of its own, use the title of the part by itself as the uniform
title."
So the uniform title (240) in the bib record will be "Sam Hayim."
The fact that we know "Sam Hayim" is part of "Tokhahat Hayim" is brought
out in the authority record for the uniform title (not
the bib record). As rule 25.6A1 goes on to say,
"Make a *see* reference from the heading for the whole work
and the title of the part as a subheading of the title of the whole
work." So the NAR will look somewhat like this:
Palache ...$tSam
Hayim
x Palache
...$tTokhahat Hayim.$pSam Hayim
The tricky part in this example may seem to be
the fact that it was (presumably) not Palache himself who called
this
particular "separately cataloged part of the work" by the
name "Sam Hayim". But that's irrelevant as far
as the application of the rule is concerned. Since the
piece in hand is by Palache and is called "Sam Hayim," the rule applies.
Based on the evidence so far presented, LC would make a
246 30 for this record for the "Sam Hayim" portion of the title
proper. This access point is required by RI
21.30J, p. 11: "When a title proper
begins with a separable statement of responsibility
that is omitted from the uniform title ... , make an additional
added entry for the title without the
initial statement of responsibility." Here, what we've omitted
is not a statement of responsibility, but the introductory
word "Sefer": but the application of the RI is
the same. (Properly speaking, we are not tracing "the uniform
title"; we are tracing something that just happens to be identical
with the uniform title.)