Yarn bombing : the art of crochet and knit graffiti / Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain. (OCLC #305104129)
RDA 3.5.1.4.14 on recording the Dimensions of volumes says to record only the height of the volume (in cm or mm as appropriate), unless the width of the volume is either less than half the height or greater than the height, in which case both are recorded. For this volume, that would be:
21 x 23 cm
and in the MARC:
300 __ ǂa 231 pages : ǂb color illustrations ; ǂc 21 x 23 cm
Barack Obama / Coleen Degnan-Veness. (OCLC #756278154)
We don’t normally buy (or even accept as gifts) multiple copies of titles, but because of the way these readers will be used (permanent reserves for ESL classes), we bought 2-5 copies of each title.
In Voyager, I usually only use “Make a Copy” (under the Record menu) for testing features like record overlay. I use it so rarely that in my daily workflow I forget it exists!
For this project, I remembered it, and used it frequently. Though all copies of a title share a call number, each needs its own holdings (MFHD) record with an individual item/barcode attached. For each title in this collection, I made one good MFHD with the call number I wanted, then made several copies of that MFHD on the bib. Populating a mfhd from scratch does not take many clicks, but with over 100 of these volumes to work through, I took shortcuts where I could find them!
The long road / Rod Smith ; series editors, Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter. (OCLC #251337940)
This reader contains a CD-ROM with audio of the book and interactive activities, but it is primarily a book, so is cataloged as such; that is, the leader marks it as Type: a, BLvl: m and the 008 fixed fields are coded accordingly (“Books” workform in OCLC).
It also has aspects of a Computer File and a Sound Recording that we would have recorded in an 008 had those been the primary aspects, but instead we record them in 006 fields. This 006 for the Computer file aspect (m) marks File (008/26; 006/09) as interactive multimedia (i):
006 m i
This 006 for the Sound Recording aspect (i) marks audience (Audn) as juvenile, literary text (LTxt) as language instruction (j), and most others, like format of music (FMus), as not applicable (n):
006 innnnj j n
That was in the copy, anyway, I changed it locally to remove the juvenile audience designator (that code is for interest level, not reading level) and added LTxt biography (b):
006 innnn bj n
Additional properties for the Electronic Resource aspect can be recorded in the 007:
007 c ǂb o ǂd c ǂe g ǂf a ǂh m
The mummy / adapted by David Levithan ; retold by Mike Dean. (OCLC #276480317)
A series can have different kinds of subseries: its parts can be named or numbered, and that distinction is indicated by which subfield is used for the parts. Named parts use ǂp, as in:
ǂa 20 questions ǂp History
Numbered parts use ǂn, as in:
ǂa Bitlet. ǂn Series 2
If the part has both a name and a number, both subfields might be used:
ǂa British idealist studies. ǂn Series 3, ǂp Green
Catalogers may disagree on whether a phrase for part of the series is a name or a number. For example, the sets of low-vocabulary books I’m cataloging are in a main series called “Penguin readers” with subseries for the levels of vocabulary: EasyStarts, Level 1, Level 2, etc. I don’t think these really describe a sequence of parts (as mentioned in the docs for MARC field 830) but rather a descriptor of the reading level based on the number of headwords. Headings for these subseries have already been established in OCLC using ǂn for all except the lowest level:
ǂa Penguin readers. ǂp EasyStarts
ǂa Penguin readers. ǂn Level 1
ǂa Penguin readers. ǂn Level 2
....
I am using the form that has been established to reduce future hassle in cataloging. Though it seems odd to me, it should not affect searching or display.
Pele / Rod Smith. (OCLC #785823200)
In OCLC copy, this reader about Pelé was initially classed under GV942.7: Soccer, individual biographies. We bought many books in this Penguin series, and classed them in the same area so they could be easily browsed in our collection.
From what we found in copy for other titles in the series, many libraries had this same idea, but made different decisions on what that classification should be, including: (our decision bolded)
Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; retold by Clare West. (OCLC #182520269)
We recently got a collection of simplified editions of classic works. For example, where the original says:
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
This version says:
My first name was Philip, but when I was a small child I could only manage to say Pip. So Pip was what everybody called me.
I wondered, is this a new expression of the work “Great Expectations” created by Charles Dickens? (maybe an adaptation or free translation?) or is it a whole new work? Who should be recorded as the creator?
RDA 19.2.1.3 includes as an example this very situation (and this very title, but with a different reteller):
Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; retold by Florence Bell
and indicates that “Florence Bell” should be recorded as the creator of the (new) work.
Ionic channels of excitable membranes / Bertil Hille. (OCLC #10755486)
This gift book was already labeled with a call number that didn’t quite look like a Library of Congress call number. It was in the copy we found as a National Library of Medicine call number:
060 __ ǂa QH 601 ǂb H651i 1984
We re-labeled with a Library of Congress call number, which was quite similar:
050 00 ǂa QH601 ǂb .H55 1984
The two classifications are similar enough that in our collection, we do have some titles with NLM call numbers assigned, but interfiled with the LC collections.
Abstracts. (OCLC #7352023)
We initially did not find copy for this volume, probably because it was difficult to determine (particularly from the cover) what might have been used as the title proper (Ti? 3rd International…? The Academy…?). The title page and spine suggested the simple title “Abstracts”, a search for which returned many records and needed significant refining.