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Synopsis of benefits available to veterans and their dependents. (OCLC #903217739)

RDA 3.5.1.4.11 on recording Dimensions of sheets says “if the sheet is designed to be read in pages when folded, record only the height of the sheet when folded.” Though the rule is no more specific than that, I chose to apply another rule for volumes (which this piece appears to be, but only technically is not):

RDA 3.5.1.4.14 on recording the Dimensions of volumes says to record only the height of the volume (in cm or mm as appropriate), unless the width of the volume is either less than half the height or greater than the height, in which case both are recorded. For this volume, that would be:

19 x 7 cm

and in the MARC:

300 __ ǂa 1 folded sheet (13 pages) ; ǂc 19 x 7 cm
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Pa negre [videorecording] = Black bread / Cameo ; Isona Passola presenta una producció de Massa d’Or Produccions ; en producció associada amb Televisió de Catalunya amb la participació de TVE ; una pel lícula d’Agustí Villaronga ; guió i direcció, Agustí Villaronga ; productora, Isona Passola. (OCLC #758283201)

Though many people do DVD copy cataloging based only on the container, I have better luck finding good records, especially for foreign language materials, viewing the title frames of the DVD. Some days this means I get to watch the first few minutes of every Korean film in the box, which is a bonus.

This particular item says “Pan negro” on the container, but “Pa negre” in the title frames. Both forms of the title are in the high-quality record I found, but only “Pa negre” appears in its Title column in OCLC search results. One could have found the best/popular record by searching “pan negro”, but would have to be careful to not ignore the other form in search results (keeping in mind that translations may look significantly different).

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problem-cataloger:

Мифологические рассказы русских крестьян XIX-ХХ вв / составление, подготовка текстов, вступительная статья и комментарии М.Н. Власовой.(OCLC #900161990)

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RDA does not bracket unnumbered pages in notes, but it would have felt odd to refer to pages 909-910 when there were only 909 pages in the extent. I could have recorded the extent as “909 pages, 1 unnumbered page” but that would not have made the 504 clearer, so I just went with:

504 __ ǂa Includes bibliographical references.

frakcancer asked for clarification on why deduced information would not be bracketed in a note. My post overstated this; this is not an RDA rule, but rather from the LCC-PS for RDA 1.7.1 (Transcription), which says “Do not use square brackets in notes except when they are used in quoted data.” So if you are following those policy statements, supplied page numbers in the bibliographical references note should not bracketed. Thanks for asking! 🙂

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250 posts!

In the past year or so, I have made 250 posts to problem-cataloger. I apparently have quite a bit to say about cataloging rules and decisions. I’m learning more all the time, so I don’t think this will slow down. I am putting some kinds of posts on new tumblrs though:

For subject analysis/subject headings: may-subd-geog.tumblr.com

For cool stuff I learned, not about cataloging but because of something I cataloged: cataloging-taught-me.tumblr.com

For examples of automation or programming in my everyday cataloging work: library-computer.tumblr.com/

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Мифологические рассказы русских крестьян XIX-ХХ вв / составление, подготовка текстов, вступительная статья и комментарии М.Н. Власовой.(OCLC #900161990)

RDA 3.4.5.2 on recording the extent of a Single Volume with Numbered Pages, Leaves, or Columns, says to “record the last numbered page, leaf, or column in each sequence and follow it with the appropriate term”. For this title, I recorded this:

300 __ ǂa 909 pages ; ǂc 24 cm

but noticed that the bibliography went from 909 to the following page. But how to reference that?

Under AACR2, this would have been simple:

504 __ ǂa Includes bibliographical references (p. 909-[910]).

RDA does not bracket unnumbered pages in notes, but it would have felt odd to refer to pages 909-910 when there were only 909 pages in the extent. I could have recorded the extent as “909 pages, 1 unnumbered page” but that would not have made the 504 clearer, so I just went with:

504 __ ǂa Includes bibliographical references.
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Nine seventeenth-century organ transcriptions from the operas of Lully / edited with an introduction by Almonte C. Howell. (OCLC #897477805)

The 048 field in MARC is for the Number of Musical Instruments or Voices Code. Each subfield $a typically contains a two-digit code for the type of instrument, followed by a two-digit number indicating the number of parts. This score contains pieces for a single organ player, so the code is:

048 __ ǂa kb01

All keyboard instruments start with k, and Organ is second on that list (ka is the code for piano).

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The art & science of love : a weekend workshop for couples / created and presented by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman. (OCLC #902814536)

These DVDs came as part of a box set that included manuals, separate information sheets, decks of cards, and a magnet. Though I could have considered the whole works to be a kit, I chose instead to consider the video primary, as it references and walks you through use of all the other materials. This is encoded using only the video information as the extent, with the rest of it considered accompanying materials:

300 __ ǂa 4 videodiscs (388 min.) : ǂb sound, color ; ǂc 4 3/4 in. +
    ǂe 2 manuals (89 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm) + 1 contact
    list (14 pages ; 28 cm) + 1 checklist (28 cm) + 1 booklet
    (10 pages ; 16 cm) + 7 card decks (9 x 6.5 cm) + 1 house
    magnet (10 x 9 cm)

I included content/media/carrier information for both the videos and the manuals, as they seemed the most important:

336 __ ǂa two-dimensional moving image ǂb tdi ǂ2 rdacontent 
336 __ ǂa text ǂb txt ǂ2 rdacontent  ǂ3 accompanying material
337 __ ǂa video ǂb v ǂ2 rdamedia
337 __ ǂa unmediated ǂb n ǂ2 rdamedia  ǂ3 accompanying material
338 __ ǂa videodisc ǂb vd ǂ2 rdacarrier
338 __ ǂa volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier  ǂ3 accompanying material
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Ilya/Emilia Kabakov : where is our place? (OCLC #52694167)

Just as 041 and 043 can use codes to summarize language and geography data respectively, 045 can summarize the time period of the content.

When 045 has a blank first indicator, the field has only a subfield a which contains a four-character time period code: the first two characters are for the earliest period covered, the last two are for the latest period covered. The codes may be found on the OCLC BibFormats page for 045. The code may represent a much more specific period than what is found in the subject headings.

The code for the century 1900-1999 is ‘x’. A digit may be added to this to represent the decade, so x4 = 1940s. If no digit is used to add specificity, a ’-’ is used, so ‘x-’ is still the range 1900-1999. 

045 __ ǂa x4x-
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A scanning electron microscope survey of the epidermis of East African grasses / Patricia G. Palmer and Alice E. Tucker. (OCLC #6581357)

This set was published as part of the much larger series Smithsonian contributions to botany, but not consecutively in that series. This is reflected in the series statement:

490 1_ ǂa Smithsonian contributions to botany ; ǂv no. 49, 53, 55, 62, 67

but the notes in the record refer to volume numbers within the set (1-5). We have them shelved by SuDoc number in the larger series, so reflect this in the mfhd as:

    852 __ ‡b yl,sd ‡h SI 1.29:49, etc.
    866 41 ‡a no.1 ‡z [Shelved as: SI 1.29:49]
    866 41 ‡a no.2 ‡z [Shelved as: SI 1.29:53]
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The estate tax of 1926, as amended; the additional estate tax of 1932, as amended; the gift tax of 1932, as amended. Prepared for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives. (OCLC #3835120)

The record for this title correctly reflects that the volume has 83 numbered pages:

300  iii, 83 pages ; ǂc 23 cm

but does not mention that it has just as many completely blank pages following that sequence. RDA 3.4.5.3.2 on Inessential Matter says to “disregard unnumbered sequences of inessential matter (advertising, blank pages, etc.).” I hope nobody is using pagination information as an indicator of book width!