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Reports … [microform]. (OCLC #40340781)

This set of microfiche came to my attention via a packet of printouts (circa 2005) detailing seven different problems with its (original) cataloging record, including:

  • typos
  • wrong number of fiche
  • lack of analytical title access points
  • sharing a call number with unrelated fiche

The cover page email ended with “UGH, sounds liked you’d rather I forget this, right?” (I guess it was in fact forgotten!)

I brought the set down to my desk and examined it briefly with a lightbox app and a 10x loupe (just strong enough to read the title pages) and managed to sort out all of its problems. It still shares a call number with another title, but have similar topics they appear to have been published as a set (numbering is continuous).

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Air conservation; … report. (OCLC #21667681)

This volume was found in one branch, stamped for another, and sent to me because its barcode was not in the catalog. We have two additional copies of the title in storage, so the selector chose not to keep this duplicate.

(Discarded!)

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Til verket med Hallingdal Kraftlag [sound recording]. (OCLC #40099250)

This looks amazing. (I found them on YouTube!)  Unfortunately, we no longer collect audiocassettes.

(Discarded!)

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Trial in a goldfish bowl [videorecording] / produced by ATS/CLE State Bar of Wisconsin in cooperation with Media-Law Renations [i.e. Relations] Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin. (OCLC #43042952)

When we bought this title in 1985, it consisted of 5 U-matic videocassettes and a manual. The video is a mock trial (based on an actual case) in which a boy was injured in a farm machinery accident. It was designed as a teaching aid for journalism students learning to report on trials. We no longer have the cassettes (or a way to play them in the library), and though the manual (likely) contains the full script of the tapes, it is not as useful for its intended purpose.

(Discarded!)

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Commonwealth of Kentucky : report no. 7 (in two volumes) : University of Kentucky / Division of Education Studies, Griffenhagen and Associates. (OCLC #38058844)

This title was on the problem shelf as an envelope containing the contents of two disbound volumes (now just a stack of paper). We already have an intact copy in special collections, and a microfilm copy for which we created the OCLC master record – my suspicion is that the copy I have in hand is the one that was filmed! The selector did not want to add it back to the collection as an additional print copy, as it is now in such poor condition.

(Discarded!)

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Genomic XML viewer.

Based on the demo that ran when I (against my better judgment) put this mysterious CD into my workstation, the LabBook Genomic XML Viewer looked like some pretty sweet software in 2001-2002. Unfortunately, the download button does nothing, and LabBook.com (which “powered” the software) is now a parked GoDaddy page (registrant in Hyderabad).

(Discarded!)

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La minificción en el siglo XXI : aproximaciones teóricas / Henry González Martinez, editor. (OCLC #886547249)

I always feel weird assigning the topical subject heading “Short stories” to collections of short stories (it seems more like a form/genre) but the scope note is quite clear about the usage:

Here are entered collections of stories. Works on the short story as a literary form and on the art of short story writing are entered under Short story.

This title is about a literary form similar to the short story (minificción, similar to flash fiction) which does not yet have a specific LCSH term, so I did the subject cataloging as:

    650 _0 Short story.
    650 _0 Spanish fiction ǂy 21st century.
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Finite element modelling of shrinkage cracks in reinforced concrete liquid retaining walls / by Mohammed Hamid Rasool ; supervised by Ali N. Attiyah & Hans Gesund. (OCLC #886393004)

Print dissertations are not considered published, and for unpublished materials, date of production is a core element. RDA says “If the date of production appears on the source of information in more than one calendar, only the date in the calendar preferred by the agency preparing the description is required.”

The date appears on this piece in both the Gregorian calendar (January 2012 A.D.) and the Islamic calendar (Safar 1433 A.H.)  RDA 2.7.6.3 does say that (if you record more than one), dates should be recorded in the order they appear.

ISBD 4.3.4 says “When dates in different calendars appear on a resource, all dates are given, separated by a space, equals sign, space” so my production statement looks like:

264 _0 Kufa City, Iraq : ǂb University of Kufa, ǂc 2012 = 1433 A.H.
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Hold me tight [videorecording] : conversations for connection / director, Rich Danby ; producer, Elia Saikaly. (OCLC #472671144)

This video was requested by one of our patrons through interlibrary loan. As other libraries can be weird about lending media, we find that it can be quicker and cost-equivalent to just purchase the requested title – so that is exactly what we do if the title is available for purchase, and can be shipped quickly at a reasonable cost.

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Sábato : historia y apocalypsis / Elisa Calabrese. (OCLC #885797280)

RDA 1.7.3 on punctuation for transcribed elements says to transcribe punctuation as it appears on the source, with an exception to omit punctuation that separates data to be recorded as one element from data to be recorded as a different element.

I consider “Sábato” to be the title proper and “historia y apocalypsis” to be other title information, so the full stop between them is omitted. When encoding our description with ISBD punctuation, these two are separated with a colon. (In ISBD description, a full stop preceding the second element would make it appear more like a dependent title.)