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A history of Ukrainian industry / Oleksander Ohloblyn ; with an editor’s pref., a retrospect by the author and indices. (OCLC #475510)

This volume includes the content of three titles; the first and third are in Russian, and the second is in Ukrainian. The title and editor’s preface are in English.

The Lang MARC fixed field should contain the code for the predominant language of the piece, excluding prefaces, introductions, forewords, and appendices. This DLC record created in 1973 has it coded as English:

Lang: eng

If I were cataloging this, I would have encoded it as Russian. Is this an old standard?

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Ñahui : el rostro del Ecuador : serie audiovisual sobre los pueblos indígenas y negros del ecuador / Fundación ARIG ; dirección: Igor Guayasamin, Lilian Granda. (OCLC #919504054)

This 22 volume set has its container information (titles, summaries) all in Spanish, but for moving image materials we record the main language based on the sound track. This set includes videos in many languages (including Spanish, but also Awa pit, Kichwa, Paicoca, Cha’palaa, Huao terero, Shuar, A’ingae, and Tsafiki), so I encoded the soundtrack as having multiple languages: 

Lang: mul

I encoded the information about container and subtitles in the 041:

041 0_ ǂa mul ǂb spa ǂj eng ǂj fre ǂj spa

with a free text version in the language note:

546 __ ǂa Soundtrack in multiple languages with optional
  subtitles in Spanish, English or French. Summaries in Spanish.
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And quiet flows the vodka, or, When Pushkin comes to shove : the curmudgeon’s guide to Russian literature and culture, with the devil’s dictionary of received ideas, alphabetical reflection on the loathsomeness of Russia, American Academia, and humanity in general / Alicia Chudo ; edited by Andrew Sobesednikov. (OCLC #43540075)

The LC-PCC PS for RDA 2.3.6.3 on Recording Variant Titles says: For titles proper that contain an “alternative title,” insure title access to the complete title proper (MARC field 245); to the first part of the title proper up to the word “or” or its equivalent in another language that signals an alternative title (MARC field 246); and to the part following the word “or” or its equivalent in another language (MARC field 246).“ For this title, this appears as:

245 10 ǂa And quiet flows the vodka, or, When Pushkin comes to 
    shove : ǂb the curmudgeon's guide to Russian literature and
    culture, with the devil's dictionary of received ideas,
    alphabetical reflection on the loathsomeness of Russia, American
    Academia, and humanity in general / ǂc Alicia Chudo ; edited by
    Andrew Sobesednikov.
246 30 ǂa And quiet flows the vodka
246 30 ǂa When Pushkin comes to shove

ISBD punctuation for the title proper is described in ISBD 1.1.3.4

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The odyssey of life. The ultimate journey [videorecording] / photographed by Lennart Nilsson ; written by Thomas Friedman ; produced by Wanngärd AB and Bo G. Erikson Productions, a co-production between Swedish Television … [et al.]. (OCLC #80285161)

OLAC’s Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs Using RDA and MARC21 says that the narrator of a video should be recorded in the 511 field with first indicator 0 (so as not to generator a display constant “Cast:”):

511 0_ ǂa Narrated by David Ogden Stiers.

An access point may also be added, with the appropriate relationship designator:

700 1_ ǂa Stiers, David Ogden, ǂe narrator.
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Issues in bilingualism and biculturalism : a Hong Kong case study / David C.S. Li. (OCLC #33820211)

This volume (and about 20 others) were due back to the library in 1999, but were just returned this week! They had long since been removed from the catalog (following our lost/missing books policy) so we are treating them as gifts to the library.

The branch where this volume was housed has recently done some aggressive weeding and other collection development, so we will make these volumes available to the selector, so she can choose whether we want to retain it.

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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.