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Poverty in America : urban and rural inequality and deprivation in the 21st century / Max J. Skidmore, editor. (OCLC #950886800)

The call number range HC110.A-Z is for special topics in Economics in the United States. Special topics for this range are specified under HC79.A-Z (special topics in Economics), including:

  • HC79.O93   Outer space development
  • HC79.P55    Pollution
  • HC79.P6      Poor. Poverty
    • HC79.P63   Economic assistance, Domestic. Anti-poverty programs
  • HC79.P67    Population aging

So for this title about poverty in the United States, we use the cutter from the main topic to build the classification:

    HC110.P6

then add the title cutter and year to build the full call number:

    HC110.P6 P685 2015
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Construction technology for high rise buildings : handbook / Bassem M. M. (OCLC #949269919)

This book’s title page has the author’s name as “Bassem M. M.” by includes the full name on the title page verso, “Bassem Mulia Mahmoud”. Following RDA 2.4.2, I recorded the statement of responsibility as found on the same source as the title proper (the title page):

    245 10 ǂa Construction technology for high rise buildings : 
        ǂb handbook / ǂc Bassem M. M.

I created the access point following RDA 9.2.2.5.1, choosing the fuller form when neither form predominates:

    100 1_ ǂa Mahmoud, Bassem Mulia, ǂe author.

Had I chosen the form with initials, how would I form the access point? Like below?

    M., Bassem M.

What about a version including the fuller form?

How did you determine that Mahmoud is the family name?

This was partly a guess. I know that Mahmoud is common as both a given name and a surname, but I have only seen Bassem as a given name. I Facebook-stalked folks named “Bassem Mahmoud” and found that they had relatives named “Mahmoud” but not “Bassem”, so that seemed consistent. I know that generally Arabs don’t have “middle names”, but often have their father’s name in that position, though I’d never heard “Mulia” as a name.

To add extra confusion, I did further searching to see if I could find anything else about this author, and found references to what might have been a previous edition or related book with the author’s name spelled:

Basem Munla Mahmood

That is, ALL words in the name had different spelling than what was on the volume I had in hand. I was unable to find anything authoritative (searching only in English and for transliterated forms) about the author so for now I’m sticking with what’s on the piece. I’m not confident enough to make him an authority record though.

(If anyone has extra insight on this, I’d be happy to hear it!)

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Designing TWA : Eero Saarinen’s airport terminal in New York / Kornel Ringli ; translation: David Koralek. (OCLC #925439994)

The record for this title provided two options for classification in one call number field:

    050 00 ǂa NA6303.N5 ǂb R56 2015 ǂa NA737.S28

The inclusion of both in one field led to a strangely printed call number label for the volume!

The options are:

  • NA6303.N5 – Architecture of airport buildings and terminals in New York, New York
  • NA737.S28 – Architecture of Eero Saarinen

either of which would be appropriate, depending on the library’s collection. Our Design Library has a substantial collection of books about this architect’s work, so I chose to class the book there with the call number:

    NA737.S28 R56 2015
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The G-man and the Diamond King : a true FBI crime story of the 1930’s / William E. Plunkett. (OCLC #915806586)

RDA A.11.8 on Capitalizaiton of Epithets says to capitalize an epithet occurring with, or used in place of, a personal name, so in this title I’ve capitalized “Diamond King”.

RDA A.28 on Capitalization of Single and Multiple Letters Used as Words or Parts of Compounds says to capitalize a letter that refers to a letter of the alphabet, so I’ve also capitalized “G-man” (short for Government Man, slang or FBI agent).

This makes my title proper:

    The G-man and the Diamond King
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Construction technology for high rise buildings : handbook / Bassem M. M. (OCLC #949269919)

This book’s title page has the author’s name as “Bassem M. M.” by includes the full name on the title page verso, “Bassem Mulia Mahmoud”. Following RDA 2.4.2, I recorded the statement of responsibility as found on the same source as the title proper (the title page):

    245 10 ǂa Construction technology for high rise buildings : 
        ǂb handbook / ǂc Bassem M. M.

I created the access point following RDA 9.2.2.5.1, choosing the fuller form when neither form predominates:

    100 1_ ǂa Mahmoud, Bassem Mulia, ǂe author.

Had I chosen the form with initials, how would I form the access point? Like below?

    M., Bassem M.

What about a version including the fuller form?