Cárok és kalandorok : a “zavaros időszak” története / Szvák Gyula. (OCLC #922582189)
Several booksellers described this book as being in the “rainbow” series (“Szivárvány”) but I didn’t find that word on the piece anywhere, just a rainbow on the cover. I included a series statement for it so that it would be searchable:
490 0_ ǂa [Szivárvány]
but left it untraced, and also put it in brackets (following RDA 2.2.4) because I got the wording from somewhere other than the piece itself.
Ўзбек тили дарслиги : бошланғич мактабнинг тўртинчи синфи учун / М. Шамс, Т. Содиков. (OCLC #922535817)
The title page of this has the phrase “fourth class” spelled out (“тўртинчи синфи”), but on the cover it is abbreviated (“4-синфи”). The LC-PCC PS for RDA 2.3.6 on Variant Title says they are only core for rare materials, but NLA PS considers most types of variant titles (including cover titles) to be core. I recorded this one to aid in searching:
246 14 ǂa Ўзбек тили дарслиги : ǂb бошланғич мактабнинг 4-синфи учун 246 14 ǂa Ŭzbek tili darsligi : ǂb boshlanghich maktabning 4-sinfi uchun
Dilbar : [ḣikoi︠a︡lar] / Karim Raḣimov ; rassom A. Nazirov. (OCLC #32449111)
I find it oddly satisfying to add holdings to a record with only one or two other holdings; it somehow makes them seem rarer than those I do original cataloging for (and as a bonus, I don’t have to do the original cataloging in Uzbek!)
Do you recognize these languages? If so, let me know on Reddit where I have lots more pretty pictures:
[Thai? -> English] A palm leaf book
[Sinhala? -> English] A palm leaf book
[Sanskrit? -> English] a Buddhist liturgical treatise on saffron-tinted paper
Russian-English conversation book = Russko-angliĭskiĭ razgovornik / E.M. Coff and F.M. Rozhkova. (OCLC #46638889)
One reason to not limit your OCLC search by date is that the limit uses the fixed field copy of the date, which is easier to do math/comparison with than the variable field 260/264ǂc (which may include phrases like [not before 1800] and dates in other calendars) but in my experience is also coded incorrectly more often than the variable field.
An otherwise good record I found for this title had 1960 in the 260ǂc and the call number, but 1950 in the fixed field (now corrected).
Aerial photographs of Clay and Owsley counties, Kentucky. (OCLC #921306444)
In our last Third Thursday “bring your cataloging problems” sessions, our map cataloger brought some aerial photographs of “probably somewhere in Eastern Kentucky” taken in the 1970s. They had very little metadata on them to give us clues, so she’d selected two which seemed to have the most identifying features. How were we to find their specific locations? (Or should we just catalog them more generally, with the little information we did know?)
I posted the photos to reddit on the /r/whereisthis subreddit, and within a week I had an answer, complete with a Google Earth link which matched one of my posted photos. Success! We now have a nice full record with specific subject access:
651 _0 ǂa Clay County (Ky.) ǂv Aerial photographs. 651 _0 ǂa Owsley County (Ky.) ǂv Aerial photographs.
“Russian despotism” : the origins and dissemination of an early modern commonplace / by Marshall Tillbrook Poe. (OCLC #31820585)
The OCLC record we found for this dissertation (and its reproductions) indicate an extent of 451 leaves:
300 vi, 451 leaves ; ǂc 28 cm
which is consistent with our table of contents, but our volume only goes up to 367 pages. We are missing the conclusion chapter! There are very few holdings on the OCLC records, so I’ll check with the selector to find out whether we want to keep the incomplete volume.
Plán Prahy z roku 1816 / [text, František Roubík, Karel Kouchař, Václav Hlavsa]. (OCLC #16775425)
In RDA, atlases typically have the content/media/carrier:
336 ǂa cartographic image ǂb cri ǂ2 rdacontent 337 ǂa unmediated ǂb n ǂ2 rdamedia 338 ǂa volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier
Orientalia. (OCLC #2670229)
What’s going on with (our gift copy of?) this journal?
Many issues have in their table of contents a bibliography with separate pagination (decorated by *) but we don’t have those pages. They are available from JSTOR though, so I know they exist.
Were these published in a separate volume, that the previous owner just chose not to bind in there?
Mappa mundi = Studia in honorem Jaroslavi Daškevyč septuagenario dedicata : zbirnyk naukovykh prat︠s︡ʹ na poshanu I︠A︡roslava Dashkevycha z nahody ĭoho 70-richchi︠a︡ / [redakt︠s︡iĭna kolehii︠a︡, Ihor Hyrych and others]. (OCLC #39024881)
This book includes materials in many languages, as indicated in the 546:
546 __ ǂa Predominately in Ukrainian with articles
also in English, French, German, Polish, and Russian.
Its Lang fixed field is encoded for Ukrainian (as that is the predominant language) but other languages are encoded in MARC 041. The old standard for this field was to concatenate all of the three letter codes in one subfield, like:
041 0_ ǂa ukrengfregerpolrus
But now each language gets its own subfield:
041 0_ ǂa ukr ǂa eng ǂa fre ǂa ger ǂa pol ǂa rus