Higher learning / a New Deal Production. (OCLC #32908987)
Subject headings for groups of people do not always use the term preferred by that group:
650 _0 ǂa Nazis ǂv Drama.
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Jazz day : the making of a famous photograph / Roxane Orgill ; illustrated by Francis Vallejo. (OCLC #913844760)
RDA 7.28 on Awards says that an award (a “formal recognition of excellence, etc., given by an award- or prize-granting body, for the content of a resource”) may be recorded if considered important for identification or selection:
586 __ ǂa Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, Picture Book, 2016.
and may be taken from any source.
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One last word : wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance / Nikki Grimes ; artwork by Cozbi Cabrera [and 12 others]. (OCLC #948337254)
BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications) is the subject category system used in bookstores, and some libraries. BISAC headings (hierarchical strings with the major category in all caps) may be used as subjects:
650 _7 ǂa JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places
/ United States / African American. ǂ2 bisacsh
650 _7 ǂa JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States
/ 20th Century. ǂ2 bisacsh
650 _7 ǂa JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse. ǂ2 bisacsh
These headings correspond one-to-one with terms that may be used as a classification system:
084 __ ǂa JNF018010 ǂa JNF025210 ǂa JUV057000 ǂ2 bisacsh
In both types of fields, ǂ2 bisacsh is used to indicate the source vocabulary.
Headings and terms may be looked up on the Book Industry Study Group web site.
(Thanks to The Feral Cataloger for this excellent intro to BISAC!)
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James Baldwin : the price of the ticket / a Karen Thorsen production in association with Maysles Films, Inc. & WNET, New York ; directed by Karen Thorsen ; produced by Karen Thorsen & William Miles ; written by Karen Thorsen, Douglas K. Dempsey. (OCLC #25112025)
This title is biographical in nature, as indicated in the subject headings:
600 10 ǂa Baldwin, James, ǂd 1924-1987. 650 _0 ǂa African American authors ǂy 20th century ǂv Biography. 650 _0 ǂa Civil rights workers ǂz United States ǂv Biography.If this were a Book record (for example, with Type: a for Language material and BLvl: m for monograph), there would be a position in the fixed fields used to designate this (Biog = 008/34, 006/17); as this is a Visual materials record, fixed fields are used to record other data specific to the format, such as running time (in minutes), and technique (live action or animated?).
Not at my desk right now, but is there a way to add the biography designation in a 006? As if any ILS would ever make use of that, but still. @problem-cataloger
I’m so glad you asked, @callmebackinfiveyears, as I’ve been wondering about this too; my guess is that you cannot do it, at least not for this video.
I only see the Biog fixed field in the Books type, so that sounds like to add this type of 006, the resource would have to be bookish in some way (like an ebook is primarily a book so that’s its 008, but is computer file-ish so gets that 006), or you would need to have a book as accompanying material that you could describe with that 006. The OLAC
Best Practices for Cataloging DVD/Blu-ray only mention this field in the context of substantial accompanying text. BYU’s FAQ describes 006 as “as an auxiliary fixed field to be added when the fixed field for the format you have chosen is insufficient” though, so maybe some libraries use them more freely.
But yeah… I don’t think I’ve ever used an ILS that made use of Biog (or many other fixed fields) in the 008 even! Too bad, as it would be a nice if you could specify in a normalized way and then determine whether it’s an autobiography, individual or collective biography, etc.
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James Baldwin : the price of the ticket / a Karen Thorsen production in association with Maysles Films, Inc. & WNET, New York ; directed by Karen Thorsen ; produced by Karen Thorsen & William Miles ; written by Karen Thorsen, Douglas K. Dempsey. (OCLC #25112025)
This title is biographical in nature, as indicated in the subject headings:
600 10 ǂa Baldwin, James, ǂd 1924-1987. 650 _0 ǂa African American authors ǂy 20th century ǂv Biography. 650 _0 ǂa Civil rights workers ǂz United States ǂv Biography.
If this were a Book record (for example, with Type: a for Language material and BLvl: m for monograph), there would be a position in the fixed fields used to designate this (Biog = 008/34, 006/17); as this is a Visual materials record, fixed fields are used to record other data specific to the format, such as running time (in minutes), and technique (live action or animated?).
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Preaching to the chickens : the story of young John Lewis / Jabari Asim ; illustrated by E. B. Lewis. (OCLC #936192120)
Records for juvenile books often include additional fields to aid with selection. Intended audience may be encoded in the fixed fields:
Audn: j (juvenile, age 0-15)
There is also a repeatable note field 521 (“Target Audience Note”) which can use free-text description, like:
521 __ ǂa Elementary Grade
Or a rating from a specified source or scale:
521 8_ ǂa 840 ǂb Lexile
The Lexile framework assigns reading difficulty scores to books based on quantitative factors like sentence length, which may have odd results. This book, for example, is recommended by reviewers for grades 2-5, but has a Lexile score of 840, suggesting that the difficulty is appropriate for 5-8 grade.
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Hallelujah / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; story and direction by King Vidor ; scenario by Wanda Tuchock ; treatment by Richard Schayer ; dialogue by Ransom Rideout. (OCLC #28249662)
RDA 2.3.1.6 say to “not transcribe words that serve as an introduction and are not intended to be part of the title”, so this video’s record has:
245 00 ǂa Hallelujah / ǂc Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; story
and direction by King Vidor ; scenario by Wanda Tuchock ;
treatment by Richard Schayer ; dialogue by Ransom Rideout.
with King Vidor’s name in the statement of responsibility. Optionally, if considered important for access, you can record the form in which the title appears on the source of information as a variant title:
246 3_ ǂa King Vidor's Hallelujah
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After ten years : the court and the schools / CBS News ; producers, Philip Scheffler, William Peters ; directed by Norman Gorin. (OCLC #45218587)
There is no subject heading for “Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka”, though a subject authority record does exist for that heading. It is not intended for use as a 650 subject added entry (Subj use: b), but includes a complex see reference:
260 __ ǂi the name headings ǂa Brown, Oliver, 1918-
ǂi and ǂa Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education, ǂi with
subdivision ǂa Trials, litigation, etc.
like:
600 10 ǂa Brown, Oliver, ǂd 1918-1961 ǂx Trials, litigation, etc.
610 10 ǂa Topeka (Kan.). ǂb Board of Education
ǂx Trials, litigation, etc.
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Rap, race & equality / Elliott Productions & Burberry Productions present a film by Stephen & Grant Elliott ; produced & directed by Stephen & Grant Elliott. (OCLC #31401623)
RDA 7.17.1.4 on Details of Colour Content says to record details of colour content if considered important for identification or selection, as evidenced by the resource itself, as in:
300 1 videocassette (50 min.) : ǂb sound, color with
black and white sequences ; ǂc 1/2 in.
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Muhammad Ali : skill, brains and guts! / produced by Bill Cayton ; directed by Jim Jacobs ; A Big Fights, Inc. presentation. (OCLC #35717603)
RDA 9.19.1.1 on constructing the authorized access point for a person says to use the preferred name for the person as a basis for the AAP; in this case, “Muhammad Ali”:
100 1_ ǂa Ali, Muhammad, ǂd 1942-2016
Variant access points (RDA 9.19.2) may be added based on other names associated with that person, such as names they’ve been previously known by, forms or spellings of their name that appear in other sources, or forms that might reasonably be searched:
400 1_ ǂa Clay, Cassius, ǂd 1942-2016 400 0_ ǂa Cassius X, ǂd 1942-2016 400 1_ ǂa X, Cassius, ǂd 1942-2016 400 1_ ǂa Ali, Muhammed, ǂd 1942-2016 400 0_ ǂa Muhammad Ali, ǂd 1942-2016 400 0_ ǂa Muhammed Ali, ǂd 1942-2016 400 1_ ǂa Clay, Cassius Marcellus, ǂc Jr., ǂd 1942-2016