Input guidelines:

·        Use the resource as it displays to the user as the primary guide to determining the creator. Examples of creators include authors of written documents, photographers of slides and photographs, musician or musical group who performed a musical piece, organizations that generate documents, etc.

·        Personal names should be listed in inverted form surname or family name first, followed by forename or given name (i.e. Last name, First name, Middle name or initial). When in doubt, enter the name as it appears and do not invert.

·        Multiple creators may be recorded in multiple occurrences of this field, in the order in which they appear on the resources, but the most important creator (if there is one) should occur first.

·        Corporate names should be listed according to a hierarchy, listing the parts of the hierarchy from largest to smallest, and separated by full stops. If a hierarchy is unclear, record the name as it appears. If a government department or agency with a generic title, always include the name of the state as appropriate.

·        Names of other organizations (e.g. non-government or single level bodies) should follow the form used in the resource.

·        If a statement of responsibility cannot be found, but if the resource is a component of an official organizational server, use the name of that organization as the creator. If no statement of responsibility is present on the resource, leave the creator element blank.

·        If the Creator and Publisher are the same, repeat the name in the Publisher field. Also note that in cases of lesser responsibility (other than creation such as secondary authors and editors, etc. may be entered using Contributor element.

·        Check whether the use of Authority File such as LC http://authorities.loc.gov/ or other locally developed utilities for determining the correct form of the name.

·        In the case of a long group or organization name that includes subordinate units, sometimes the name can be shortened by eliminating some of the hierarchical parts not considered necessary for uniquely identifying the body in question. For example, to enter the CIA as an author, use the form of the name as given in LCAF (United States. Central Intelligence Agency) instead of the full hierarchical name (United States. National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency).
-N.B. Consult AACR2 for established cataloguing rules.

Examples:

·        Organization names:

-University of North Texas. School of Library and Information Sciences

-International Business Machines Corporation (not IBM or I.B.M.)

-Unesco (not U.N.E.S.C.O. or United Nations Education, Science, and Culture Organization)

-The Office of the Texas Secretary of State

-H.W. Wilson Company

-Dallas Museum of Art

·        Personal names:

-Hartman, Cathy
-Moen,William E.
-Hastings, S. K.
-Shakespeare, William

(The recommended practices is that all extra detail about the creator to be entered in Creator Information field, e.g.. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.  how the database handles birth/death dates, (which are very important to distinguish identical names), and other non-standard characters such as diacritics before using them here in Creator field.)

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Input guidelines:

·        This element extends the creator element by providing further information about the entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource.

·        Any qualifiers such as dates, title, fuller form of name, other form of name, corporate names, contact (email and physical) addresses, jurisdiction, etc. can be recorded under this ‘Creator Information’ field.

·        This should be considered experimental and may need to be modified upon further experience. It has been included here in preparation of a future plan to compile all Author/Creator details in different subject areas.

Examples:

• Creator: "Hartman, C. N."
  Creator Information: "Cathy Nelson Hartman is an Associate Fellow of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge and Head of the Government Documents Department at the University of North Texas Libraries. Her postal address is: P.O. Box: 305190, Denton, Texas 76203-5190. She can also be reached by Phone: (940) 565-3269, Fax: (940) 565-2599, and E-mail: chartman@library.unt.edu"
• Creator: "Niblack, Narcissa"
  Creator Information: Narcissa Niblack (1882-1966), daughter of William C. Niblack, president of Chicago Title and Trust, married James Ward Thorne (1873-1946), son of George Thorne, a founding partner of Montgomery Ward and Company, in 1901. She began organizing her collection of miniatures c.1930, displaying the original 30 miniature rooms at a reception at the Chicago Historical Society in 1932.This information comes from a small catalogue, "Miniature Rooms by Mrs. James Ward Thorne at the Phoenix Art Museum.
• Creator: "Hughes, Sarah Tilghman"
    Creator Information: Hughes, Sarah Tilghman, born August 2, 1896.  Died April 23, 1985.  Judge of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. 

-N.B. The punctuation recorded here is exactly how it will display to the patron.

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