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Map worlds : a history of women in cartography / Will C. van den Hoonaard. (OCLC #830352925)

This book on our shelf had the same call number as this book on a very different topic:

Sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps / Chet Van Duzer. (OCLC #844705228)

Both were classed under GA203, a general special class number (under Cartography–History) which is for special aspects of the subject as a whole which don’t have their own place in the classification. I moved the sea monsters book to GA781 (Cartography, European maps) which was more specific; the sea monsters aspect is still accessible via subject headings.

No new “general special” numbers are being established, and there are generally only narrow ways these classifications should be used (amorphous works, too new subjects). However, GA203 has a scope note specifying that it should be used for “cartographical sources, value of maps in boundary disputes, popes as geographers.” The topic “women cartographers” seemed similar in scope, and I couldn’t find a more specific appropriate classification, so I left it as general special.

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Si nous vivions en 1913 / Antoine Prost. (OCLC #878360972)

Did you know that if you update an existing OCLC record by putting a new call number in an 090, that call number won’t be saved in the master record? They do get saved in new records (maybe in records with no other call number?), so I’d been assuming they’d save. For the existing record for this title, I added a complete call number in an 050.

Before I assign a new call number, I always peek into nearby OPACs using OCLC’s “Find in a Library” service; sometimes I find a good call number that may have unintentionally not been shared.

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Antología de la poesía oral-traumática, cósmica y esquizofrénica de Enrique Valle / por Fredo Arias de la Canal. (OCLC #879577035)

I initially found a Spanish-language record for this title, and was happy to see that it was an RDA record with Spanish-language terms in 33X ( texto / no mediado / volumen ). The Spanish translation of RDA is not yet available in RDA toolkit, so I peeked into the French version. It lists the same carrier types (using French terms) and they have the same codes as the English terms! This says great things for international sharing of RDA records.

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Ricciotti, architect / collected works under the direction of Francis Rambert. (OCLC #879598494)

Coming from a math background, I often read “collected works” as meaning “complete works”; for this title, it seems to mean collected as in gathered/selected for a particular exhibition, so I did not use a conventional collective title, only the title proper.

I also considered “collected works” to be a noun phrase that is part of the statement of responsibility, rather than other title information.

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艾氏建筑事务所 : 学习・工作・生活 = Ehrlich Architects : learning, working, living / 艾氏建筑事务所编著. (OCLC #876806744)

This book has both a parallel title proper and other title information, but they share a (Chinese-only) statement of responsibility. This is encoded in ISBD as:

Title proper : other title information = parallel title :
   parallel other title information / statement of responsibility.

MARC 245 ǂb is for “remainder of title”, which includes parallel titles and other title information:

ǂa Title proper : ǂb other title information = parallel title :
   parallel other title information / ǂc statement of responsibility.
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La Grande Guerre expliquée en images / Antoine Prost. (OCLC #868020225)

When you specify the number of non-filing characters for a title, you are not just saying how a title should be sorted, but also how it should be indexed. Specifically, any characters you skip will not be considered part of the title, or even the record.

For example, if you do a title search in OCLC for:

la grande guerre expliquee en images

it will return no results, because the title field’s second indicator says to skip the first three characters:

245 13 La Grande Guerre expliquée en images / ǂc Antoine Prost.

For more on what not to search for, check out my longer blog post.

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A road to change : Harlan County / by Kim Childers. (OCLC #879573322)

This book has slightly odd pagination: the blank page before the title page is marked “Page 1”, the title page is marked “Page 3” and no other pages have numbers. I considered this a change in the form of numbering, so ignored those first few numbered pages by RDA 3.4.5.4, recording the extent as:

1 volume (unpaged)

There is a DVD by this same company with similar content, based on the same research, and considered complementary. I recorded this as:

787 08 ǂi Complemented by (work): ǂa Harlan County : a road to change.

with the exact relationship described in a note.

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О войне / Клаузевиц ; перевод с немецкого А.К. Рачинского. (OCLC #879375849)

This Russian translation of Vom Kriege was published 100 years after the original, and includes a German title page in the front matter. As that title page has the original publisher and year, I chose not to treat it as parallel title page, and just included its information in a note about the original publication.

I am intrigued by how many forms of the author’s name appear in this record. In the statement of responsibility, he is just “Клаузевиц”, and the original title page has has full name “Karl von Klausewitz”. The authorized form is “Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831” and this appears to be the most common form (though all of these forms appear in his authority record). I wonder which way he spelled it? (or which way his wife spelled it, as she published it after his death?)

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Deutsche Rechtschreibung : aktuell / Karin A. Stock. (OCLC #879332132)

Be careful when searching for words hyphenated across line-breaks. A search for “Recht-Schreibung” may find only hyphenated (or otherwise split) versions of the phrase, and a search for “Rechtschreibung” may find only single-word versions.

In this case, a title search for “deutsche” and “aktuell” and the author’s name (and several similar searches) narrowed the search sufficiently to determine that I needed to create a new English-language record for this title. The single word “Rechtschreibung” is used in the text of the book, though I noticed many old records using “Recht-Schreibung”; I used the single word version in the main title but added the hyphenated version as a title access point in case anybody searches that way.

(I wonder if this book, which is about German spelling reform, addresses such hyphenation?)

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Concrete : microstructure, properties, and materials / P. Kumar Mehta, Paulo J.M. Monteiro. (OCLC #879384979)

Some ebook platforms, particularly those that have formatted text instead of page scans, do not provide a traditional title page/verso to catalog from. It can also be difficult to determine the extent of the book in pages, and the presence of certain elements such as illustrations, bibliography, and index. These may also vary from platform to platform for a given title, which is a problem when you are trying to create a provider-neutral record that accurately represents them all, while only having access to one.

One way to avoid biasing the record to your available platform is to base the description (pagination, etc.) on an available print record for the title, and record this decision in a note like:

588 __ ǂa Description based on print version record.

Note that 588 is not used to indicate where you found individual elements; those notes still go in a general 500:

500 __ ǂa Title from disc label.