In making a heading for a person, take the following three steps.
First, choose the name that will be the
basis for the heading. Most persons are only known by one name. In
some cases, however, a person is identified by two or more names
or by two or more forms of the same name. For example, the
same woman is known as Jacqueline Kenndy and Jacqueline
Onassis , and the same man is known as Herblock and
Herbert Block.
Second, decide which part of the
chosen name should be the first word in the heading (the filing
element
). Again, in the majority of cases this is simply the
surname. In some cases,
however, the choice is not so obvious. For example, should it be
Gaulle, Charles de or De Gaulle, Charles?
Third, make references from
different names for the same person or from different parts of the
chosen name. For example, you should refer from Geisel,
Theodore to Seuss, Dr:; from Clay, Cassius
to Ali, Muhanmmad; and from Da vinci, Leonardo
and Vinci, Leonardo da to Leonardo, da
Vinci.
Rules 31–44 deal with the first two steps and
with their associated problems. Rule
63 deals with
the third.
