The public papers of governor Martha Layne Collins, 1983-1987 / Elizabeth Duffy Fraas, editor. (OCLC #884916739)
If you are cataloging a digitized copy of a print book, you can use the OCLC macro OCLC!GenerateERecord while viewing a print record to create a workform with the same information, edited somewhat to indicate that it is an ebook. You’ll still have to do some editing, but it is a good start!
What a modern Catholic believes about women / by Sister Albertus Magnus McGrath. (OCLC #324934)
This gift book is already labeled with a call number “SD82 M147”, which is from the Union Theological Seminary classification (SD82 = History of women, matriarchy).
Our library uses Library of Congress classification, so we reclassed as
BV639.W7 M37 1972
BV639.A-Z is The Church and special classes, A-Z, so the first cutter W7 is for “women” and the second cutter “M37” is for McGrath.
I have seen classifications where “Mc” at the beginning of a name is filed as though it were “Mac”, but LCC is not like that. In the Subject Cataloging Manual on Shelflisting, under Filing rules (G 100), Rule 15 (“Names with a Prefix”) says that a prefix that is part of a name or place is treated as a separate word unless it is joined to the rest of the name directly or by an apostrophe (without a space), and should be filed letter by letter, and has as an example filing order:
Marshall, Catherine, 1914- McGrath, Suzanne Metal products manufacturing
Imposters of God: inquiries into favorite idols. (OCLC #84666)
A single publication of a title may be part of multiple series, maybe even with different numbering in each. Statements about those series may appear together or separately on a variety of sources, including the main title page, a separate series title page, the cover, or even a publisher web site. To trace those series, use a pair of 490 (transcribed series statement) and 830 (authorized form) fields for each one, like:
490 1_ ǂa Christian experience series ; ǂv 7
490 1_ ǂa Witness books ; ǂv 11
830 _0 ǂa Christian experience series ; ǂv 7.
830 _0 ǂa Witness books ; ǂv 11.
On-site staff evaluation of U.S. counter-narcotics activities in Panama, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia : a staff report / prepared for the use of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. (OCLC #36934249)
When searching for hyphenated words in word indexes (such as the title index ti:) in Connexion, substitute a space for the hyphen or the search may not retrieve the records you’re looking for, even if your search is surrounded by quotes.
For example, this title (ti:) search does not retrieve any records:
"On-site staff evaluation of U.S. counter-narcotics
activities in Panama, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia"
but this one does:
"On site staff evaluation of U.S. counter narcotics
activities in Panama, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia"
Oddly enough, these title searches retrieve the record just fine:
"On-site staff evaluation"
"u.s. counter-narcotics"
but this one does not:
"u.s. counter-narcotics activities"
so the actual indexing may be more subtle.
Investigation of the financial condition of the United States. Joint and supplemental comments of the presidents of the Federal Reserve banks in response to the questionnaire of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, second session. (OCLC #6334613)
I’m having a hard time determining if this book is technically cataloged “correctly” (Desc is blank), but it’s less than ideal. There is no collective title page (other than the cover), and the page that is in the typical title page position is really the cover of the document that is the first chapter (“Joint and supplemental…”) so that is used as the title. If I were cataloging this from scratch on a new RDA record (which difference in cataloging rules and difference in choice of chief source of information do not justify) I would use “Compendium … ” as the subtitle and indicate that the title came from the cover.
I’d rather not do a major (title-changing) upgrade of a popular DLC record (and interfere with people’s reclamations) so I did the best I could locally – added entries for the cover title, and chapter titles/sudocs to provide access to those (as they are separately cataloged in the monthly catalog).
Legislative history of Public Law 101-336, the Americans with Disabilities Act : prepared for the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session. (OCLC #23368329)
I know that the SuDoc classification scheme is not the same as Library of Congress Classification, but I am often thrown by how different its ordering is from others I am used to, specifically its convention that letters are sorted before numbers (which is the opposite of ASCII order).
While searching the shelf for another volume of this set with the SuDoc number Y 4.Ed 8/1:102-B, I had to keep order like this in mind:
Y 4.Ed 8/1:A1 4/3
Y 4.Ed 8/1:102-B
Y 4.Ed 8/1:102-121
La novela verdadera / Javier Chiabrando ; [edited by Carola Moreno]. (OCLC #872414080)
The author’s name authority record includes a call number that has already been assigned to him:
053 _0 PQ7798.13.H45
so we don’t have to start by shelflisting the author under PQ7798.13 (Spanish Literature … Argentina … Individual authors or works 1961-2000, A-Z … starting with C). Note that the first letter of Chiabrando is already accounted for in the number, so the letter in the first cutter is H for cHiabrando.
The second cutter is for the title of the book. In this case we skip the initial article La and start at Novela, following the Subject Cataloging Manual on Shelflisting’s Filing rules (G 100), Rule 13 (“Initial Articles”). Our call number is:
PQ7798.13.H45 N68 2013
Grun-tu-molani / Vidyan Ravinthiran. (OCLC #868082716)
Our main library’s general collection spans three floors, and we set the location manually in the catalog for each book based on call number. The distribution is currently:
For books close to the boundary (like this one at PR6118: English literature, 2001- , Individual authors starting with R) I peek up at the sign to check their placement. For books slightly further away, I often sing at least part of the alphabet ( … L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S … ) to just make sure. Apparently even all of my practice doing quicksort by hand has not solidified that part of the alphabet’s ordering in my head.
América en Cervantes : entrega de la medalla de oro “José Vasconcelos 2013” / a Antonio Rey Hazas ; edición de José J. Labrador Herraiz. (OCLC #887155141)
The free-floating subdivision
--Knowledge--[specific topic]
should be used under individual persons for works on the person’s knowledge or educational background of a specific topic. That topic itself should be assigned as an additional subject heading:
600 10 ǂa Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, ǂd 1547-1616 ǂx Knowledge
ǂx America. 651 _0 ǂa America.
The BOCA basic mechanical code. (OCLC #2157951)
There are many reasons that materials might reside in a library’s special collections. They may be rare or fragile, but they may just be “a special collection” important to the library, like a reference collection which must stay in the library.
For example, our Design Library keeps building codes in its special collections. These are important to lawyers handling law suits involving buildings, as a building must only meet the code in effect when it was built, not necessarily the current one.