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Oboronni zamky zakhidnoho Podilli︠a︡ XIV – XVII st. : (istorychno-arkheolohichni narysy) / I︠U︡khym Sit︠s︡insʹkyĭ. (OCLC #32649823)

This title is about castles and fortifications in a city in Ukraine:

650 _0 ǂa Fortification ǂz Ukraine ǂz Podillia.
650 _0 ǂa Castles ǂz Ukraine ǂz Podillia.

The LC classification NA1455.A-Z is for Architecture of special countries—Europe with NA1455.U47 specifically being for Ukraine. This class number is subarranged using Table N15, which includes the somewhat cryptic:

.x2A-x2Z   Local, A-Z

This means that to specify a narrower location than Ukraine, append 2 to Ukraine’s cutter, and add a second cutter for that location (Podilla):

050 _4 ǂa NA1455.U472 ǂb P6357 1994

As a local practice, we always use the publication year in monograph call numbers when possible.

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Caul & response / poems and art by upfromsumdirt. (OCLC #925478887)

When you catalog works by local authors, do you write to them and excitedly let them know that they’re in WorldCat or the authority file now? Or is that creepy?

(If you do let them know, are they pleased? Does this urge go away as you become more used to authority work?)

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To provide for the advancement of Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Construction Corps, United States Navy, retired, to the rank of vice admiral (H.R. 7576). Mr. Vinson of Georgia. (OCLC #925380358)

RDA A.11.5 on Titles Following a Name or Used Alone in Place of a Name has a section on Civil and Military Titles which says not to capitalize a civil or military title.

RDA A.11.3 on Titles Preceding the Name says to capitalize any title or term of honour or address that immediately precedes a personal name.

Both forms appear in this title:

245 10 ǂa To provide for the advancement of Rear Admiral 
    Emory S. Land, Construction Corps, United States Navy, retired,
    to the rank of vice admiral (H.R. 7576).
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Istorīi︠a︡ russkoĭ literatury XIX stoli︠e︡tīi︠a︡; kritika, roman, poėzīi︠a︡ i drama. (OCLC #19772129)

This gift volume was missing its title page, but the spine did include the author’s last name (Engel’gardt) and an English translation of the title (“Russian literature”) which narrowed my search somewhat, but not quite enough. An early page of the volume included a dedication to the author’s grandfather (Nikolaĭ Makarov (a lexicographer) and his father Aleksandr Ėngelʹgardt (an author and scientist), which was even more helpful!

A biography of his grandfather’s daughter (his father’s wife) Anna Engelgardt (a writer, publicist, translator, and activist in the Russian women’s movement) mentioned three children, Mikhail (b. 1861), Vera (b. 1863), and Nikolai (b. 1867) all of whom became writers!

Armed with all of this new information, I searched OCLC again and found a record for what I suspected was the title in hand; as a bonus, we had holdings on that record, so I could confirm my suspicions by going to the stacks!

As it turned out, we already have two copies of this set on the shelf, so we will likely not accept this duplicate volume into the collection.

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The Swan Whisperer : an inaugural lecture / Marlene van Niekerk ; translated from the Afrikaans by Marius Swart and the author. (OCLC #891616004)

The title page of this work indicates that it is a translation from Afrikaans, but I did not find the Afrikaans title anywhere on the piece, or on any pages about the author.

Our reference desk helped me identify the work as a story that appeared in a collection, so I was able to include that in the record:

100 1_ ǂa Van Niekerk, Marlene, ǂe author, ǂe translator.
240 10 ǂa Swanefluisteraar. ǂl English

Thanks, reference desk!

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scoutfinches:

the Library of Congress system mostly makes sense except when this happens

LC doesn’t care about book series so it basically just puts them in alphabetical order by title. everything that author has written has the same cutter number (in Snicket’s case, .S6795) and then the first couple of letters of the book’s title come next. so EVERYTHING by that author is all together, but completely out of sequential order. and I hate it.

Yuck! Not helpful to a patron browsing the shelf.

You could class the series together (and indicate that decision in the series authority record) and then give each title your chosen classification plus an enumeration like “v.1″ or “no.2″ or whatever is appropriate.

I’ve also been known to fudge cutter numbers when I want books to sit a certain way on the shelf; that’s easiest to do when you get the whole series at once.

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Историко-литературный обзоръ древне-русскихъ полемическихъ сочинений противъ латиниань, XI-XV в. Андрея Попова. (OCLC #923014236)

Under AACR2, facsimile reprints were cataloged with most fields (publisher, date, dimensions, etc) reflecting the original item, with a 533 note providing information about the publisher that created the reprint. Under RDA, the main data reflects the piece in hand, with a link to the data to the original piece (which includes original publisher, date, ec).

For example, in this piece I recorded:

264 _1 ǂa Ann Arbor, Michigan : ǂb University Microfilms, ǂc 1968.
300 __ ǂa vii, 417 pages ; ǂc 22 cm
776 08 ǂi Reproduction of (manifestation): ǂa Popov, Andreĭ Nikolaevich, 1841-1881. ǂt Istoriko-literaturnyĭ obzorʹ drevne-russkikhʹ polemicheskikhʹ sochineniĭ protivʹ latini︠a︡nʹ, XI-XV v. ǂd Moskva : Tipografiia T. Risʹ, 1875. ǂw (DLC)   65083011 ǂw (OCoLC)6365868

RDA does not describe MARC practices, so gives no guidance on Fixed Fields, so I did what seemed most reasonable following BibFormats:

    Form: r   Ctry: miu    DtSt: r  Date1: 1875

The date of the content is also reflected in the call number, followed by a lowercase a to indicate that it is a facsimile.

    BX1763 .P58 1875a

Do you do anything different when you catalog these?

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Russian printing to 1917 : [a catalogue of an exhibition in the University Library, Cambridge, 22 April to 29 June 1974]. (OCLC #2137460)

In standards prior to RDA, the publisher could be recorded in the shortest recognizable form. In the record for this piece (entered into OCLC in 1976), the creator and the publisher were recognized to be the same body, so the publisher was recorded very briefly as “The Library”, as it could be recognized from earlier on the card:

110 2_ ǂa Cambridge University Library.
245 10 ǂa Russian printing to 1917 : ǂb [a catalogue of
    an exhibition in the University Library, Cambridge,
    22 April to 29 June 1974].
260  [Cambridge] : ǂb [The Library], ǂc 1974.

Creators of this standard had no idea that this data would eventually all be uncoupled and the publisher separately indexed in a way that would make all similar “The Library”’s the same. A search for this publisher (or at least, a publisher described in this brief way) in my own catalog produced many different libraries, including the National Library of Singapore, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library.

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Œuvres / Malebranche ; édition établie par Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, avec la collaboration de Germain Malbreil. (OCLC #6105260)

Series statements (including numbering) may not be prominent. This volume’s full statement is hidden in the back of the book among the printing information:

Ce volume, portant le numéro trois cent quatre-vingt-dix, de la “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade”…

RDA 1.8.3 on Numerals Expressed as Words (which applies to numbering within series) says to substitute numerals for numbers expressed as words, so this is recorded in the series statement as:

490 0_ ǂa Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ; ǂv 277, 390

Similarly, the series numbering example in the series authority record also indicates that this should be recorded as a numeral:

642 __ 283 ǂ5 DPCC ǂ5 DLC

so we record it that way in the series added entry:

830 _ 0 ǂa Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ; ǂv 277, 390
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Dějiny české řeči a literatury, v redakcích z roku 1791, 1792 a 1818. Vydal Benjamin Jedliěka. (OCLC #12075881)

This gift book arrived in cataloging with some of its pages still uncut! It will have to go to preservation to have them cut before it is made available to our patrons.