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Latinoi︠a︡zychnye istochniki po istorii Drevneĭ Rusi. Germanii︠a︡ / [sostavlenie, perevod, kommentariĭ M.B. Sverdlova ; otvetstvennye redaktory, A.D. Li︠u︡blinskai︠a︡, A.K. Gavrilov]. (OCLC #21908784)

Using a specific date to limit your search may be quick, but may make limit your search too strongly. If your title is a later part of a set (which may not be obvious), the date on the title page may not be the same as the date on the set record (probably the date of its first volume). For example, this volume had 1990 on its title page, but is a volume of a set whose publication started in 1989.

If you need to narrow by date, try starting with a date range, like:

1980-1990
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Moravsko slikarstvo. : La peinture de lÉ̕cole de la Morava / Koncepcija i realizacija izložbe: Zdenka Živković [i dr.] Vojislav J. Đurić: Zidno slikarstvo Moravske škole. (OCLC #18590741)

This title is in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and French, as indicated in this note:

546 __ ǂa In Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and French.

There is no MARC language code for Serbo-Croatian, but there are codes for its standard forms Serbian (srp), Croatian (hrv), and Bosnian (bos). This record uses the code for Serbian

Lang: srp

which makes sense, as it was published out of Belgrade.

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Drevnerusskoe pevcheskoe iskusstvo / N. Uspenskiĭ. (OCLC #9723849)

Be wary of drawings that appear near the title – is that a decoration, or a decorative first letter?

In this case, the man’s throne is large letter Д which makes the first word “drevnerusskoe” not “revnerusskoe”, which may affect searching for copy cataloging.

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Freedom and equality in a liberal democratic state / Jasper Doomen. (OCLC #876898821)

The author of this title contacted our reference desk to alert us that our catalog record not only misrepresented the item as his thesis for the degree of Doctor Iuris (which does not exist in the Netherlands), and also that the word “equality” was spelled incorrectly!

The copy we’d brought in from OCLC had since been corrected, so we were able to quickly fix our own catalog record (and will fix the spelling on the spine as well).

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National Palace Museum of Korea : Gyeongbokgung, National Museum / Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow (Ed.). (OCLC #862364048)

A while back, this and one other compilation of Wikipedia articles came through our gifts process. As this is material that is freely available online, I asked the selector to confirm that she’d like them added to the collection; today I heard back that she did want them added, so they are now cataloged. I was able to find good copy for both with at least a few holdings, so some other libraries are adding these to their print collections as well.

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Повѣсть о горѣ и злочстіи как горе злочастие довело молотца во иноческіи чин. (OCLC #54877225)

One difficulty in cataloging foreign-language materials (or older materials where orthography has since changed) is identifying boundaries between words. Even if you know the correct letters to type, you must have spaces between them to be able to search effectively!

That bottom block of text consists of 13 words – can you tell where the boundaries are? (Fortunately the title page is clearer!)

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El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha : (1608) / por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; [con prólogo de Fredo Arias de la Canal]. (OCLC #793608594)

RDA 3.4.5.5 on Misleading Numbering says: when the numbering on the last page gives a completely false impression of the extent of the resource, record the numbering as it appears on the last page followed by that is and the correct number. The pages in this resource have content are both sides, but only the leaves are numbered, so its physical description is:

300 __ ǂa xviii, 277, that is, 554 pages ; ǂc 22 cm