Month: February 2015

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Сталинградская битва / А.М. Самсонов. (OCLC #19833387)

Under AACR2, edition statements had specific abbreviations to be used for English words like “First” and “Edition”, and also for words in other languages and alphabets, like “издание” and “исправленный”, detailed in Appendix B.

While this was nice and short for catalog cards, this abbreviation coupled with romanization makes edition statements more difficult to recognize when copy cataloging if you are not familiar with the language. For example, this title has the edition statment “Четвертое издание, исправленное и дополненное” which is recorded in the AACR2 copy as: 

250 __ ǂa 4-e izd., ispr. i dop.

Under RDA, the Edition Statement is transcribed fully as it appears on the piece, and also in the same language/script (unless the alternative to RDA 1.4 is followed), requiring fewer look-ups in original cataloging and making copy easier to recognize.

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Engineering management of design and construction of facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; report of the Subcommittee on NASA Over sight of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives. [by Philip P. Dickinson]. (OCLC #57440)

This title came to me as a cataloging problem because though there was a good record in OCLC, the publication date in the record (1959) did not match the date on the piece (1958).

The cover and internal content use the date August 11, 1969, so that seems like the correct date. Also, the monthly catalog record for the title lists the date as 1969 and includes the note:

[Imprint date incorrectly given on title page as 1968.]

so I used the existing record, and added that note to our local copy so it doesn’t cause us confusion later.

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Supplement to the Index of Middle English verse / Rossell Hope Robbins, John L. Cutler. (OCLC #897386804)

The title page of this resource gave me pause… who are the authors? Robbins and Cutler or Brown and Robbins?

The preface to this volume (signed with initials R.H.R. and J.L.C.) indicates that this supplement is the result of their joint research. R.H.R. also mentions in the preface that Carleton Brown not only honored him by collaboration on the Index, but also by solemnizing his marriage. From this info in the preface, I was able to sort out who was responsible for what.

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misfit-librarian:

One of these things is not like the other

I wondered which country the call numbers would match! Fortunately, it’s the one in the title. Unfortunately, this problem lives on in Classification Web’s Correlation Search:

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Synopsis of benefits available to veterans and their dependents. (OCLC #903217739)

RDA 3.5.1.4.11 on recording Dimensions of sheets says “if the sheet is designed to be read in pages when folded, record only the height of the sheet when folded.” Though the rule is no more specific than that, I chose to apply another rule for volumes (which this piece appears to be, but only technically is not):

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:

19 x 7 cm

and in the MARC:

300 __ ǂa 1 folded sheet (13 pages) ; ǂc 19 x 7 cm
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Pa negre [videorecording] = Black bread / Cameo ; Isona Passola presenta una producció de Massa d’Or Produccions ; en producció associada amb Televisió de Catalunya amb la participació de TVE ; una pel lícula d’Agustí Villaronga ; guió i direcció, Agustí Villaronga ; productora, Isona Passola. (OCLC #758283201)

Though many people do DVD copy cataloging based only on the container, I have better luck finding good records, especially for foreign language materials, viewing the title frames of the DVD. Some days this means I get to watch the first few minutes of every Korean film in the box, which is a bonus.

This particular item says “Pan negro” on the container, but “Pa negre” in the title frames. Both forms of the title are in the high-quality record I found, but only “Pa negre” appears in its Title column in OCLC search results. One could have found the best/popular record by searching “pan negro”, but would have to be careful to not ignore the other form in search results (keeping in mind that translations may look significantly different).

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problem-cataloger:

Мифологические рассказы русских крестьян XIX-ХХ вв / составление, подготовка текстов, вступительная статья и комментарии М.Н. Власовой.(OCLC #900161990)

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RDA does not bracket unnumbered pages in notes, but it would have felt odd to refer to pages 909-910 when there were only 909 pages in the extent. I could have recorded the extent as “909 pages, 1 unnumbered page” but that would not have made the 504 clearer, so I just went with:

504 __ ǂa Includes bibliographical references.

frakcancer asked for clarification on why deduced information would not be bracketed in a note. My post overstated this; this is not an RDA rule, but rather from the LCC-PS for RDA 1.7.1 (Transcription), which says “Do not use square brackets in notes except when they are used in quoted data.” So if you are following those policy statements, supplied page numbers in the bibliographical references note should not bracketed. Thanks for asking! 🙂

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250 posts!

In the past year or so, I have made 250 posts to problem-cataloger. I apparently have quite a bit to say about cataloging rules and decisions. I’m learning more all the time, so I don’t think this will slow down. I am putting some kinds of posts on new tumblrs though:

For subject analysis/subject headings: may-subd-geog.tumblr.com

For cool stuff I learned, not about cataloging but because of something I cataloged: cataloging-taught-me.tumblr.com

For examples of automation or programming in my everyday cataloging work: library-computer.tumblr.com/

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Мифологические рассказы русских крестьян XIX-ХХ вв / составление, подготовка текстов, вступительная статья и комментарии М.Н. Власовой.(OCLC #900161990)

RDA 3.4.5.2 on recording the extent of a Single Volume with Numbered Pages, Leaves, or Columns, says to “record the last numbered page, leaf, or column in each sequence and follow it with the appropriate term”. For this title, I recorded this:

300 __ ǂa 909 pages ; ǂc 24 cm

but noticed that the bibliography went from 909 to the following page. But how to reference that?

Under AACR2, this would have been simple:

504 __ ǂa Includes bibliographical references (p. 909-[910]).

RDA does not bracket unnumbered pages in notes, but it would have felt odd to refer to pages 909-910 when there were only 909 pages in the extent. I could have recorded the extent as “909 pages, 1 unnumbered page” but that would not have made the 504 clearer, so I just went with:

504 __ ǂa Includes bibliographical references.
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Nine seventeenth-century organ transcriptions from the operas of Lully / edited with an introduction by Almonte C. Howell. (OCLC #897477805)

The 048 field in MARC is for the Number of Musical Instruments or Voices Code. Each subfield $a typically contains a two-digit code for the type of instrument, followed by a two-digit number indicating the number of parts. This score contains pieces for a single organ player, so the code is:

048 __ ǂa kb01

All keyboard instruments start with k, and Organ is second on that list (ka is the code for piano).