Month: July 2014

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Dismantling the bomb and managing the nuclear materials : summary. (OCLC #29195498)

The AACR2 record for this title includes the note:

    500 __ ǂa "September 1993"--P. [4] of cover.

which means that the quoted phrase appears on the cover on the back of the piece. The cover is logically paginated: 1 (front of front cover), 2 (back of front cover), 3 (inside of back cover), 4 (outside of back cover). Since the cover doesn’t actually have those page numbers printed on it, they are bracketed in the note.

In RDA, the LC-PCC policy statement for punctuation in notes says to not use square brackets in notes except when they are used in quoted data, so the RDA record would have this note:

    500 __ ǂa "September 1993"--P. 4 of cover.
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Light everywhere : selected poems / Cees Nooteboom ; translated by David Colmer. (OCLC #859583862)

The title page has a Seagull books logo, and its verso lists two “publishing” roles:

  • Typeset by Seagull Books, Calcutta, India
  • Printed and bound by Maple Press, York, Pennsylvania, USA

I would have chosen Seagull books as the publisher (considering Maple Press to be more of a manufacturer) but the copy in OCLC says Maple Press. Variation in choice of publisher does not justify a new record, so I put our holdings on this record. I’d feel weird changing the record when it already has holdings, or having our local record not match on a major element (such things can cause problems when doing a reclamation) so I left the record as it is.

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The handbook for quality management [electronic resource] : a complete guide to operational excellence / Thomas Pyzdek, Paul Keller. (OCLC #840106436)

When I initially cataloged this ebook, its link was:

http://accessengineeringlibrary.com/browse/the-handbook-for-quality-management-a-complete-guide-to-operational-excellence-second-edition

The ebook metadata has now changed to read “Handbook for quality management”, and the link has changed accordingly:

http://accessengineeringlibrary.com/browse/handbook-for-quality-management-a-complete-guide-to-operational-excellence-second-edition

I updated OCLC to reflect the change, but there are still holdings there! I am now posting such ebook link changes/or deaths on the new Zombie Ebooks tumblr.

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Civilian space stations and the U.S. future in space. (OCLC #11477461)

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Government documents are often available in multiple formats (print, electronic, microform). An older cataloging practice was to have a single bibliographic record representing the title in all formats (manifestations), but now we catalog each format on its own bibliographic record. In a FRBR or linked data environment where we are storing statements rather than pre-gathered records, there would be less of a distinction here.

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Allylboration of carbonyl compounds / Dennis G. Hall and Hugo Lachance. (OCLC #775406307)

The catalog record for this monograph says that it was originally published as volume 73 of the serial title “Organic reactions”, though I didn’t find that anywhere on the piece! I checked our copy of volume 73, and found that indeed, their contents were nearly identical (except for updated references).

The selector wanted to keep both copies, so I cataloged this one as a separate monograph, using a note (not series statement/added entry) to record the relationship.

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Policy papers : United States Senate Republican Policy Committee, one hundred and eighth Congress, first session / Jon Kyl, Chairman. (OCLC #54903735)

The catalog had only a shipping list record for this piece. Due to weirdness with an OCLC reclamation project, we also had our OCLC holdings set on a copy of that shipping list record! It is now fully cataloged.

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Space architecture : buildings for the outer space / Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. (OCLC #880139534)

I worry about classifying any book that starts with “The mysteries of the Universe are yet to be unraveled.” The contents are broad, including a section on extraterrestrial buildings, but just as much space is given to the individual human senses as we should think about them when designing those buildings.

I ended up classing it with the Design Library’s other books on space architecture (which is different from Space (Architecture)!) under TL797 (Space stations).

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South Union Shaker Village / photographs and text by David Toczko ; foreword by the Sabbathday Lake Shakers. (OCLC #875257539)

At a recent conference, I went to a cataloging “Ask the Experts” panel, and shared my grumpiness about RDA’s lack of “writer of foreword” relationship designator. They pointed me toward the general instruction which says “If none of the terms listed in this appendix is appropriate or sufficiently specific, use another concise term to indicate the nature of the relationship.”

So what do you think? Is it reasonable to just use “writer of foreword” (as I’ve done on this record) or is this a slippery slope?

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Opening prayers : impeachment trial of the president of the United States, January 7-February 12, 1999 / Lloyd John Ogilvie ; [prepared under the direction of Gary Sisco]. (OCLC #41594951)

For typical monographs, we put the barcode in the same place (upper left, covering whatever) but for government documents we don’t obscure text, stamps or stickers, so sometimes it ends up in strange places.

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Digital architecture / author, Dimitris Kottas. (OCLC #872755012)

RDA 3.4.5.18 on individually paged volumes (as opposed to a continuous pagination over multiple volumes) says to record the number of volumes (units) but omit the pagination (subunits). For this set, extent would be:

2 volumes

There is an optional addition which allows specifying the pagination:

2 volumes (277, 263 pages)

The LC-PCC PS says in general not to apply the addition, but the NLA PS says to generally apply it. The copy for this set in OCLC is from National Library of Australia (Symbol AU@) which problably explain why it has been included in the copy!