#fictitious characters

I read a sentence in a book that went, “She tried to be the kind of person that interesting things happened to.” And I thought that was such a pretty line. But what did it mean? And because I was enjoying the book, I immediately applied it to myself wondering if I’d ever done that. 

I don’t know if interesting things just ‘happen’ to people. You have to go looking for things that will grab you…

New headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings Monthly List 09 (September 19, 2016) 

The LC PCC PS for RDA 9.0 on Identifying Persons says that this chapter should also be used for fictitious entities and real non-human entities. Before RDA, fictitious characters could only be used as subjects of a work, not as creators or contributors, so headings for these characters were only created as subjects (X50):

Dolittle, Doctor (Fictitious character)

Don Quixote (Fictitious character)

Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)

Per the same LC PCC PS, these subject headings should be replaced with name authority headings (X00) whenever they are needed as creators or contributors, for example, if a book of animal stories claimed to be authored by Doctor Dolittle. Such headings may optionally be converted to name headings (as these were, in September) even if it seems unlikely that they’ll ever be listed as creator or contributor:

Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)

(though I would read that book). 

This chapter of RDA should only be used for fictional individuals; the LC Subject Heading Manual section H 1610 on Fictitious characters says that headings for groups of fictitious characters should still be established as subjects (X50). Some new ones from September:

Ghostbusters (Fictitious characters)

Jedi (Fictitious characters)

Sith (Fictitious characters)

The LC PCC PS does include as a future activity: 

A project to transition all fictitious and real non-human entities from LCSH will be conducted as resources are available.