The mountain warbler : being a collection of original songs and recitations with selections from other writers, for the use of choirs, Sabbath schools and families / by William Willes. (OCLC #3734861)
What do you think – is that Brigham Young’s signature in this book from one of our music collections? Do we have one of his old books?
The name is also written on pages 50 and 100 – is that an old practice among book owners or libraries?
(Thanks Kerri!)
Legislation on foreign relations through … / Committee on Foreign Relations, Committee on International Relations. (OCLC #3700343)
When cataloging serials already in the collection, we check surrounding areas on the shelf to make sure that any missing volumes have not just been misshelved. We sometimes find them, but this is the first I’ve seen with an explanatory note. Scrawled on the head (top of the text block): “Today is my last day in this work”.
Coprésences, entrecroisements : le pictural et le narratif chez Marie-Claire Blais et Sergio Kokis / Kirsty Bell. (OCLC #892302761)
One major goal of authority work is distinguishing between people with similar (or same!) names. For example, this title is by Kirsty Bell, professor of French in Canada, whose authorized access point is established as:
Bell, Kirsty, 1975-
Her date of birth is included to distinguish her from Kirsty Bell, a writer and critic in Berlin, whose authorized access point had already been established as:
Bell, Kirsty
Frontiers of chemistry : plenary and keynote lectures presented at the 28th IUPAC Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 16-22 August 1981 / edited by Keith J. Laidler ; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in conjunction with the Chemical Institute of Canada. (OCLC #8114998)
When classifying conference proceedings in Library of Congress Classification, use the year that the conference occurred, not the year when the volume was published (often the following year).
This volume was published in 1982, but covers a conference from 1981, so the call number is:
QD1 .F76 1981
Boron chemistry at the beginning of the 21st century / Yu.N. Bubnov, editor-in-chief. (OCLC #910921812)
RDA 11.13.1.8.1 on creating an Access Point for a Single Instance of a Conference, says to add the number, date, and location to the access point for the conference, as in:
111 2_ ǂa International Conference on the Chemistry of Boron ǂn (11th : ǂd 2002 : ǂc Moscow, Russia)