Month: January 2015

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Copyright law revision : studies / prepared for the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session pursuant to S. Res. 53 [and second session pursuant to S. Res. 240]. (OCLC #38213367)

This bibliographic record represents the full set, as indicated by the physical description:

    300 __ ǂa 34 volumes in 12 ; ǂc 24 cm

but our MFHD indicated that we had an incomplete set (the comma after 1-19 indicates a gap):

    852 3_ ‡b yl,sd ‡h Y 4.J 89/2:C 79/
    866 41 ‡a no.1-19,
    866 41 ‡a no.22-34
    868 41 ‡a Index

This volume came down to my desk for cataloging, allowing me to complete the set!

    852 3_ ‡b yl,sd ‡h Y 4.J 89/2:C 79/
    866 41 ‡a no.1-34
    868 41 ‡a Index

Ah…

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ALA Midwinter!

I am currently at ALA Midwinter – yay!

I’ll be at the Jane-a-thon preconference, and probably many other sessions with “cataloging” in their name. I’ll also be tweeting my head off with the hashtag #alamw15.

I’ll also be speaking on Sunday morning at the Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group about one of my projects: MARC and Non-MARC Metadata for Digitized Government Documents.

Hope to see you around!

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Therapy sessions : demonstrations / with John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman. (OCLC #900897868)

This DVD set had so many titles that I had a hard time selecting one for the Title proper.

The title screen on the first DVD (where I would normally look, following RDA 2.2.2.3) read “Scripts for marital therapy training”. This phrase did not appear on any of the other discs, so I was not sure it was a collective title, and not just a title for first disc.The label on the disc was similar to the container: “Therapy sessions: demonstrations”. The disc menu (on all discs) only has the title “Assessment & intervention”.

I selected the title from the container/disc label as it was the most prominent (it was also chosen for different editions) and used the others as variant titles:

245 00 Therapy sessions : demonstrations / ǂc with John Gottman
    and Julie Schwartz Gottman.
246 1_ ǂi Title on disc menu screens: ǂa Assessment & intervention
246 1_ ǂi Title on disc 1 opening title: ǂa Scripts for marital therapy
    training
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US Army, Navy, Air Force, 1970-1972 / ǂc составитель И. В. Модестов. (OCLC #900740312)

Ugh, sorry. I made a monograph record for this volume before realizing that it was part of the serial “Foreign military news”, of which we already have a partial run. It looks very similar to those other pieces, except that they all say “Foreign military news” across the top; this one does not say it anywhere. The title page does have its parallel title “Зарубежная  военная хроника” and “(на английском языке)” (in English), and the dates seem right. The record I derived from also had “foreign military news” in an 830.

Unfortunately the title is slightly too old (1973) to have an ISSN, which was not published as an ISO standard until 1975. I am pretty confident about adding the volume to our serial record though. Sorry about adding the weirdo “no holdings” record to OCLC.

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Do it the hard way; Rube Goldberg and modern times. (OCLC #111971)

This government document has a pop-up of a Rube Goldberg machine! It is a fairly simple one, similar to this noise-maker.

RDA does not specifically address pop-up or otherwise movable books, so I looked at LC’s guidelines for Toy and Moveable (T&M) books. Following those guidelines, I included a 500 note:

500 __ ǂa Includes pop-up illustration of a Rube Goldberg machine.

but as there was only only illustration like this, I did not go so far as to include the subject heading:

650 _0 ǂa Pop-up books ǂv Specimens.
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Mongol gagnuuryn zhor / bėltgėsėn, L. Batchuluun ; ėrkhėlsėn, L. Khu̇rėlbaatar. (OCLC #182521192)

I was slightly alarmed when I saw the cover of this book – what script is that?

Fortunately (a) the title page includes the title in Cyrillic, (b) our fabulous Russian selector had already identified a good OCLC record, and © he also pointed me to this resource which includes information about Mongolian transcription. Though I’m not familiar with Mongolian, given those three elements, I was able to copy catalog this title with confidence.

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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. (OCLC #43026739)

This government document is a single sheet of paper, folded like a tri-fold brochure (and housed in an envelope to protect it).

RDA 3.4.5.14 on extent of Single Sheets says “if the sheet is designed to be read in pages when folded, record the extent as 1 folded sheet followed by the number of pages laid out on the sheet, in parentheses.”

RDA 3.5.1.4.11 on dimensions of Single Sheets says “if the sheet is designed to be read in pages when folded, record only the height of the sheet when folded” (as though it is a volume).

So for this document, the physical description is:

300 __ ǂa 1 folded sheet (6 pages) ; ǂc 22 cm
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G. (OCLC #5466373)

I initially did not realize that the “G” on the spines of these volumes was the title of the serial, and not just some enumeration! The record has a variant title:

    246 13 ǂa General information series

(seen on some pieces) which, while not much more specific, is at least longer.

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Легенды и предания украины / автор-составитель Игорь Николаевич Кузнецов (OCLC #893118886)

Both “Ukraine–Folklore” and “Folklore–Ukraine” are valid subject headings – so which is appropriate in this case?

Folklore is a subject heading for folklore texts, which may be subdivided geographically for the source of the folklore.

–Folklore is a free-floating subdivision “for collections of folklore texts on those subjects or for works about those subjects as themes in folklore”

We assigned Folklore–Ukraine to this text; the other formation is much less common!

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The future is now : the significance of precognition, by Arthur W. Osborn. (OCLC #492222)

RDA 2.8.1.4 on Recording Publication Statements says to transcribe places of publication and publishers’ names as they appear on the source of information. For this title, the Publisher’s Name would be recorded as “Theosophical Publishing House”. Under AACR2 (1.4D) the publisher would be recorded in the shortest form in which it can be understood and identified internationally, which in this case (depending on cataloger’s judgment) could be:

Theosophical Publishing House

Theosophical Pub. House

Theosophical Pub.

Theosophical