Definitions for "Statement of responsibility"
Name(s), phrase(s), or group(s) of characters relating to the identification and/or function of any persons or corporate bodies responsible for or contributing tothe creation of realization of the intellectual or artistic content of a work. Statements of responsibility may occur in conjunction with titles (e.g. the title proper, parallel title, titles of individual works contained in the item, titles in series/subseries statements) or in conjunction with edition statements. * NOTE: THIS DEFINITION IS REVISED -- Cf . p. 623 of AACR2R.
The part of a bibliographic item or catalogue entry which indicates the "author" of a work, that is, the person or organization responsible for the intellectual content of the book.
A statement transcribed from the item being described, relating to authors or to corporate bodies issuing the item or to persons or corporate bodies responsible for the performance of the content of the item.