This document provides best practices for making variant titles in Resource Description and Access (RDA) for portions of title proper, including alternative titles, parts or designations of parts, and partial titles. It gives three RDA cataloging examples, one for each type of variant title: an alternative title for a translation, a part title for a section of a work, and two partial titles extracted from longer titles. The document concludes by noting a common case in art books where the artist's name may be mistaken for the title.

1. Resource Description & Access
Best Practices for Making Variant Titles for
Permutations Related to Portion of Title Proper
[Source: LC-PCC PS for RDA Rule 2.3.6.3]
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Portion of title proper
1. Alternative title
2. Part or designation of part
3. Partial title

2. RDA Cataloging Example - Alternative title
100 1# $a Hoffmann, Heinrich, $d 1809-1894.
240 10 $a Struwwelpeter. $l English
245 10 $a Slovenly Peter, or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks.
246 30 $a Slovenly Peter
246 30 $a Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks

3. RDA Cataloging Example - Part or designation of part
245 04 $a The sophisticated traveler. $p Winter, love it or leave it / $c edited by A.M.
Rosenthal ...
246 30 $a Winter, love it or leave it

4. RDA Cataloging Example – Partial title
100 1# $a Byrne, Robert, $d 1928-
245 14 $a The New York times book of great chess victories and defeats / $c Robert Byrne.
246 30 $a Book of great chess victories and defeats
246 30 $a Great chess victories and defeats
245 10 $a Paul Jenkins, anatomy of a cloud ...
246 30 $a Anatomy of a cloud
This is a common case with art books where the title begins with the artist's name that may
be perceived by some to be the statement of responsibility