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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
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World maps / prepared by Nancy Amick and Ruth Bogia, the Princeton Braillists. (OCLC #82140461)

I was able to copy catalog this braille world atlas, but took the opportunity to look up all the rules I’d never gotten to apply before, including checking resources to learn more about braille.

The content / media / carrier types are:

336 __ ǂa cartographic tactile image ǂb crt ǂ2 rdacontent
337 __ ǂa unmediated ǂb n ǂ2 rdamedia
338 __ ǂa volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier

It is still unmediated (no equipment needed) and in the form of a volume, but the content is of type cartographic tactile image, as it is “intended to be perceived through touch as a still image in two dimensions”. The braille nature is also reflected in the physical description:

300 __ ǂa 1 atlas (1 volume) : ǂb braille and tactile, 
    thermoform ; ǂc 28 x 29 cm

We’ll class this under the atlas call number G1046.A7: maps for the blind.

The record I found included an 007 for map information:

007  a ǂb d ǂd a ǂe z ǂf n ǂg z ǂh n

but not for tactile/braille information, so I looked that up:

  • ǂa f – tactile material
  • ǂb b – braille (not moon!)
  • ǂd a – literary braille, alphabet, numbers, and punctuation marks commonly used in general writing (as opposed to mathematical, musical, etc. notation)
  • ǂe b – contracted

Contracted braille is used for Standard English braille, and I was able to confirm several contractions in the text, such as “bl” (⠃⠇) for blind, “brl” (⠃⠗⠇) for braille, and “grt” (⠛⠗⠞) for great.

Also, I tried the recommendation for teachers, to open to a random page with eyes closed, and try to identify the region shown. It is extremely hard, even for maps of familiar regions.

Any tips from other catalogers of braille material?

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Ioannis Saresberiensis episcopi Carnotensis Policratici sive De nugis curialium et vestigiis philosophorum libri VIII / recognovit et prolegomenis, apparatu critico, commentario, indicibus instruxit Clemens C.I. Webb. (OCLC #965502804)

I was a little puzzled when I saw the author’s name on the front of this reprint. “John”? Just John? (Did he sign up for the NAF first before any other Johns got there that he needed to be disambiguated from?)

The authorized form of the author’s name made this clear:

100 0_ ǂa John, ǂc of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, ǂd -1180.

This particular John (of Salisbury) was best known by his forename (rather than a surname), so his authorized access point in the name authority file is established that way as well. The first indicator (0) of this 100 field indicates that we have a forename type element here.

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The lands of ice and fire : maps from King’s Landing to across the Narrow Sea / George R. R. Martin ; cartographer, Jonathan Roberts. (OCLC #869897510)

We received this item for cataloging: a case of 12 folded maps based on George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books. We found two good and reasonably popular records that matched:

  • OCLC #800039897 (54 holdings)
    • uses the “Visual materials” workform
    • main entry George R. R. Martin; Johnathan Roberts as illustrator
    • physical description: 12 posters
    • content type: still image
    • classed in PS with Martin’s other works
  • OCLC #869897510 (25 holdings)
    • uses the “Maps” workform
    • main entry Johnathan Roberts as cartographer; George R. R. Martin’s work included as a subject and an added entry
    • physical description: 12 maps
    • content type: cartographic image
    • classed in G with maps

If we were adding this to our main library collection, I could see using the poster record, but we are cataloging it for the maps library, so the second is more appropriate; the individual maps will be stored flat in our map case. We checked the catalogs of other libraries who chose the map record, and found that some of them classed it under G3122 (Atlases of imaginary, literary, and mythological regions, etc), and others under G9930 (Maps of imaginary places); we’re considering this a set of maps (not an atlas) so will class under G9930.

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中央公論 = The Central review. (OCLC #3760507)

One of my hobbies: inexpertly sounding out the katakana used for foreign names in Japanese works.

  • ミ – mi
  • ック – kku
  • ・ – (interpunct, for word boundary)
  • ジャ – ja
  • ガー – gā

Mikku jagā = Mick Jagger!