Month: February 2015

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The art & science of love : a weekend workshop for couples / created and presented by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman. (OCLC #902814536)

These DVDs came as part of a box set that included manuals, separate information sheets, decks of cards, and a magnet. Though I could have considered the whole works to be a kit, I chose instead to consider the video primary, as it references and walks you through use of all the other materials. This is encoded using only the video information as the extent, with the rest of it considered accompanying materials:

300 __ ǂa 4 videodiscs (388 min.) : ǂb sound, color ; ǂc 4 3/4 in. +
    ǂe 2 manuals (89 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm) + 1 contact
    list (14 pages ; 28 cm) + 1 checklist (28 cm) + 1 booklet
    (10 pages ; 16 cm) + 7 card decks (9 x 6.5 cm) + 1 house
    magnet (10 x 9 cm)

I included content/media/carrier information for both the videos and the manuals, as they seemed the most important:

336 __ ǂa two-dimensional moving image ǂb tdi ǂ2 rdacontent 
336 __ ǂa text ǂb txt ǂ2 rdacontent  ǂ3 accompanying material
337 __ ǂa video ǂb v ǂ2 rdamedia
337 __ ǂa unmediated ǂb n ǂ2 rdamedia  ǂ3 accompanying material
338 __ ǂa videodisc ǂb vd ǂ2 rdacarrier
338 __ ǂa volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier  ǂ3 accompanying material
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Ilya/Emilia Kabakov : where is our place? (OCLC #52694167)

Just as 041 and 043 can use codes to summarize language and geography data respectively, 045 can summarize the time period of the content.

When 045 has a blank first indicator, the field has only a subfield a which contains a four-character time period code: the first two characters are for the earliest period covered, the last two are for the latest period covered. The codes may be found on the OCLC BibFormats page for 045. The code may represent a much more specific period than what is found in the subject headings.

The code for the century 1900-1999 is ‘x’. A digit may be added to this to represent the decade, so x4 = 1940s. If no digit is used to add specificity, a ’-’ is used, so ‘x-’ is still the range 1900-1999. 

045 __ ǂa x4x-
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A scanning electron microscope survey of the epidermis of East African grasses / Patricia G. Palmer and Alice E. Tucker. (OCLC #6581357)

This set was published as part of the much larger series Smithsonian contributions to botany, but not consecutively in that series. This is reflected in the series statement:

490 1_ ǂa Smithsonian contributions to botany ; ǂv no. 49, 53, 55, 62, 67

but the notes in the record refer to volume numbers within the set (1-5). We have them shelved by SuDoc number in the larger series, so reflect this in the mfhd as:

    852 __ ‡b yl,sd ‡h SI 1.29:49, etc.
    866 41 ‡a no.1 ‡z [Shelved as: SI 1.29:49]
    866 41 ‡a no.2 ‡z [Shelved as: SI 1.29:53]
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The estate tax of 1926, as amended; the additional estate tax of 1932, as amended; the gift tax of 1932, as amended. Prepared for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives. (OCLC #3835120)

The record for this title correctly reflects that the volume has 83 numbered pages:

300  iii, 83 pages ; ǂc 23 cm

but does not mention that it has just as many completely blank pages following that sequence. RDA 3.4.5.3.2 on Inessential Matter says to “disregard unnumbered sequences of inessential matter (advertising, blank pages, etc.).” I hope nobody is using pagination information as an indicator of book width!