Month: August 2014

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La minificción en el siglo XXI : aproximaciones teóricas / Henry González Martinez, editor. (OCLC #886547249)

I always feel weird assigning the topical subject heading “Short stories” to collections of short stories (it seems more like a form/genre) but the scope note is quite clear about the usage:

Here are entered collections of stories. Works on the short story as a literary form and on the art of short story writing are entered under Short story.

This title is about a literary form similar to the short story (minificción, similar to flash fiction) which does not yet have a specific LCSH term, so I did the subject cataloging as:

    650 _0 Short story.
    650 _0 Spanish fiction ǂy 21st century.
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Finite element modelling of shrinkage cracks in reinforced concrete liquid retaining walls / by Mohammed Hamid Rasool ; supervised by Ali N. Attiyah & Hans Gesund. (OCLC #886393004)

Print dissertations are not considered published, and for unpublished materials, date of production is a core element. RDA says “If the date of production appears on the source of information in more than one calendar, only the date in the calendar preferred by the agency preparing the description is required.”

The date appears on this piece in both the Gregorian calendar (January 2012 A.D.) and the Islamic calendar (Safar 1433 A.H.)  RDA 2.7.6.3 does say that (if you record more than one), dates should be recorded in the order they appear.

ISBD 4.3.4 says “When dates in different calendars appear on a resource, all dates are given, separated by a space, equals sign, space” so my production statement looks like:

264 _0 Kufa City, Iraq : ǂb University of Kufa, ǂc 2012 = 1433 A.H.
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Hold me tight [videorecording] : conversations for connection / director, Rich Danby ; producer, Elia Saikaly. (OCLC #472671144)

This video was requested by one of our patrons through interlibrary loan. As other libraries can be weird about lending media, we find that it can be quicker and cost-equivalent to just purchase the requested title – so that is exactly what we do if the title is available for purchase, and can be shipped quickly at a reasonable cost.

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Sábato : historia y apocalypsis / Elisa Calabrese. (OCLC #885797280)

RDA 1.7.3 on punctuation for transcribed elements says to transcribe punctuation as it appears on the source, with an exception to omit punctuation that separates data to be recorded as one element from data to be recorded as a different element.

I consider “Sábato” to be the title proper and “historia y apocalypsis” to be other title information, so the full stop between them is omitted. When encoding our description with ISBD punctuation, these two are separated with a colon. (In ISBD description, a full stop preceding the second element would make it appear more like a dependent title.)

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The state houses of South Carolina, 1751-1936, by A.S. Salley, secretary, Historical commission of South Carolina. (OCLC #4226400)

Do you have any piles of mysterious work that have been lurking on a nearby shelf so long that nobody remembers why they are there? Today I am attacking one of those!

This bound pamphlet looked straight-forward enough: clear cover title, call number on the cover, barcode in the back – but the cover of the pamphlet actually contains no pages!

On the shelf under that call number was another pamphlet binding that now contains the pamphlet’s contents. It also has its own barcode too; in fact, both barcodes are attached to the same item in Voyager (one inactive).

I removed the cover’s barcode from Voyager, and discarded that item, after marking out the barcode sticker and call number so that it does not get rescued from the trash and returned to the book drop.

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Disarmament and security; a collection of documents, 1919-55. (OCLC #3122480)

A correctly formatted SuDoc number as it appears in a bibliographic record may differ slightly from the way it is written on the actual piece. The SuDoc number for this piece (as verified in the Monthly Catalog) is:

Y 4.F 76/2:D 63/2/919-55

Numbers in the label that are in superscripts appear after slashes in the formatted number. Also, it is common for a year in the 1900s to be actually written out on the piece, but only have the last three digits in the SuDoc number, such as this SuDoc number for a 1975 document:

Y 4.F 76/2:L 52/975

This particular piece has a date range on the label 1919-55 (meaning 1919–1955, for fans of ISO 8601) which has been encoded in its SuDoc number as /919-55.

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In the shadows of the Tetons / Ward + Blake Architects ; foreword by David J. Buege and Marlon Blackwell ; original project text by Anne Parsons. (OCLC #881300202)

Cataloger’s judgment seems to vary quite a bit when it comes to architecture books – who is the creator: the architect? the writer of the text? the photographer? Is the architect’s name after the title proper actually a subtitle, or a statement of responsibility?

Opinions vary in the three records for this title (I have already requested a merge), but I settled on recording the architect as the creator (with relationship designator “architect”) and that phrase to be a statement of responsibility.