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3 Patrick Swayze favorites. (OCLC #907678359)

As a teenager, I applied for many jobs at video stores, having heard the rumors that you could borrow videos (for free!) in the evening as long as you brought them back the next morning. No luck getting hired back then, but now in cataloging, my dream has come true!

RDA 7.22.1.4 on Duration of Component Parts says to record the duration of each component part, which I did in a contents note:

505 0_ ǂa Red dawn (114 min.) -- Road house (114 min.) --
    Youngblood (110 min.).

The OLAC best practices guide describes a practice for recording time in the physical description, when each component part has the same (or approximate) playing time

300 __ ǂa 3 videodiscs (approximately 2 hr. each) : ǂb sound, color ;
    ǂc 4 3/4 in.

I also included analytical entries to provide title access for each individual title.

740 02 ǂa Red dawn.
740 02 ǂa Road house.
740 02 ǂa Youngblood.
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Physical chemistry of electrolyte solutions : modern aspects / J.M.G. Barthel, H. Krienk, W. Kunze ; edited by H. Baumgärtel, E.U. Franck, W. Grünbein ; on behalf of Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie. (OCLC #39276859)

Similar to classifying a resource with a call number, you can specify a subject category using a code from one of many pre-defined lists.

That code is recorded in MARC 072 ǂa:

072 _7 ǂa QD ǂ2 lcco

If the category list is anything other than NAL (U.S. National Agricultural Library/AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes, which receive second indicator 0), the field has second indicator 7 and the category list is specified in ǂ7. This record has the code from LC classification outline, so it’s unsurprising that the code is also the first part of the LC call number:

050 00 ǂa QD561 ǂb .B29 1998
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Design adds values to the commons : five landscape architects discuss the importance of good design for downtown development / University of Kentucky College of Design ; moderated by Michael Speaks ; featuring Aaron Betsky, Bradford McKee. (OCLC #907676180)

The OLAC best practices guide for cataloging DVD/Blu-Ray discs in RDA specifically doesn’t cover DVD-ROMs of video files like this one, so we just followed RDA.

The resource is made up of two DVD-ROMs containing both .MOV and .MP4 files, so we recorded the physical description as:

300  2 computer discs (8 video files) : ǂb color, sound ; ǂc 4 3/4 in.
336  two-dimensional moving image ǂb tdi ǂ2 rdacontent
337  computer ǂb c ǂ2 rdamedia
338  computer disc ǂb cd ǂ2 rdacarrier
347  video file ǂb MPEG-4 ǂ2 rda
347  video file ǂb QuickTime ǂ2 rda
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Sobranie sochineniĭ v semi tomakh / Marina T︠S︡vetaeva ; [sostavlenie, podgotovka teksta i kommentarii Anny Saaki︠a︡nt︠s︡ i Lʹva Mnukhina]. (OCLC #39019008)

Volumes of collected works may be more prominently decorated with the author’s name, which may not be recorded in the title field at all. This creates a challenge in copy cataloging of foreign language materials; if you don’t recognize “Marina Tsvetaeva” as a name, or don’t yet know that “Sobranie sochinenii” means “collected works”, what seems like the obvious search query may not retrieve the best (or any) records.

If you’re not finding copy for what appears to be a commonly available book, try multiple searches before giving up.

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A catalog of reproductions and publications : color slides, books, catalogs, educational materials / National Gallery of Art. (OCLC #906962810)

It is said that metadata is a love note to the future, but sometimes that correspondence is vague and you end up in a “big laundry” situation.

I don’t know what “OCIR hole punch” means, but the years written on the shelf-list card and the label lead me to believe that we used to have 1969 volume, which was replaced with the 1971 version when it arrived, keeping the same SuDoc number. Lacking any other information, I cataloged the new volume on its own record with this SuDoc number.

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A textbook of nanoscience and nanotechnology / T. Pradeep. (OCLC #899218803)

Sometime in March, the metadata for this ebook at McGraw-Hill’s Access Engineering Library changed from having its title as “A textbook of nanoscience and nanotechnology” to just “Textbook of nanoscience and nanotechnology”. This would normally not be an issue, except that the URL changed similarly, from:

http://accessengineeringlibrary.com/browse/a-textbook-of-nanoscience-and-nanotechnology

to

http://accessengineeringlibrary.com/browse/textbook-of-nanoscience-and-nanotechnology

(and the top one no longer works). Maybe time to ramp up the zombie ebooks blog or similar…

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Getting started : urban youth in the labor market / by Albert Westefeld, under the supervision of John N. Webb … (OCLC #1876457)

Did you know that a barcode scanner is just a glorified keyboard? It doesn’t care if you’re inputting the data into an ILS client, OCLC Connexion, a web page, a spreadsheet, or a text file. Wherever your cursor is, that’s where it will type the barcode.

We are currently planning to move a large-ish collection (that is not identifiable just by its cataloging data), and need to change the items’ locations in the catalog. Rather than editing each record individually, the plan is to scan each barcode into a spreadsheet as we move the items to a cart, and then modify the catalog appropriately based on the spreadsheet.

(We could probably make the changes about as quickly by scanning the items directly into Voyager’s Pick & Scan, but our laptop with Cataloging client is out for repair.)

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国立美術館 : マップと概略案内. (OCLC #906972890)

RDA 3.5.1.4.11 on Dimensions of Sheets says, for folded sheets not intended to be read in pages, “record the height × width when extended followed by the height × width when folded” as in:

46 x 46 cm folded to 12 x 23 cm
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Roy Lichtenstein : a retrospective : National Gallery of Art, October 14-January 13, East Building. (OCLC #819413342)

We keep small government documents like this one (88 x 88 mm) in envelopes on the shelf, but put the barcode directly on the piece (in case they get separated). Sometimes there isn’t enough room to put it on there without covering important information (the SuDoc and Depository stickers were already present when the piece came to cataloging).

I brought this piece to a meeting, and several options were suggested:

  • Put the card in a small binder and barcode that?
  • Encapsulate?
  • Enclose in a smaller envelope, and barcode that?
  • Barcode the envelope?
  • Barcode the envelope, with a note indicating to check for the piece?

I brought it to the labeling technician, who just trimmed some of the white sticker around the barcode so that it fit:

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Cluster molecules of the p-block elements / Catherine E. Housecroft. (OCLC #28377229)

Water damage is a mess, and it’s often not worth the work to salvage an individual volume, especially if it is not a rare book. We were able to replace this water-damaged paperback with a nice new hardback copy.