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Партийно-политическая работа в Вооруженных Силах / Генерал-лейтенант М.Г. Соболев. (OCLC #879351239)

For this publication about political party work in the Soviet armed forces, the statement of responsibility included the author’s military rank of Lieutenant general. Though my library’s practice is typically to abridge a statement of responsibility (removing non-essential information such as titles, ranks, or affiliations), in this case I felt it would aid with selection of the title, so retained it. Both the LC-PCC and NLA policy statements say typically not to abridge, so our policy may change in time.

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The chemistry of organozinc compounds / edited by Zvi Rappoport and Ilan Marek. (OCLC #70054225)

If Part 1 of this set has R-Zn, does Part 2 have A-Q? Though this is a multi-volume set, that R-Zn does not describe the content of just this volume; it describes the whole set!

Zn is zinc, and the list of abbreviations following the table of contents says that R stands for “any radical”. An organozinc compound contains carbon-to-zinc chemical bonds, so “R-Zn” appears to be a diagram with R as a wildcard.

Similarly, I have in hand The chemistry of organomanganese compounds which says “R-Mn”, and The chemistry of organolithium compounds, Volume 2 which says “R-Li”.

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Performance evaluation of bridges with structural bridge deck overlays (SBDO) / by James J. Griffin, Issam E. Harik and Ching Chiaw Choo. (OCLC #866579013)

There was already a James J. Griffin in the authority file, a professor (now emeritus) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Maryland. His vita does not mention this publication, or have any evidence that he is a structural engineer; this report is likely by a different author, so we had to make his heading unique in some way.

We did not know this James J. Griffin’s middle name (to build a fuller form), or date of birth, so we followed RDA 9.6.1.9 and used his profession/occupation to distinguish him:

Griffin, James J. (Structural engineer)
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Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus / Proclus. (OCLC #70059795)

When a set is published over a period of years, it is easy for its volumes to sneak onto their own records. The set may not benefit from the subject analysis afforded by separate records, and if classification is not done consistently, volumes may be separated (or even mis-ordered) on the shelf.

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中国民俗故事 = Chinese folk tales / 编绘 侯冠滨. (OCLC #46315682)

This book has as its first subject heading Tales–China–Juvenile literature, which according to Classification Web is most highly correlated with GR335 (Folklore, China). I do like the classification already in the record though (PL1117: Chinese language, Readers, Intermediate and Advanced); the piece is a picture book with text in both Chinese and English, so will likely be more useful to our library’s foreign language learners than to our folklorists.

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安妮日记 / 安妮 · 弗兰克著 ; 奥托 · 弗兰克, 米莉亚姆 · 普雷斯勒编 ; 高年生译. (OCLC #436270933)

I classed this diary of Anne Frank (translated to Chinese from the original Dutch) under DS135.N6 (The Jews, Netherlands, Biography and memoirs) to parallel what Libray of Congress did – so why does Anne Frank have a class number in her authority record (PT5834.F68: under Dutch authors, 1800-1960)?

It turns out that Anne Frank did author more than her diary, and these works, along with any criticism of those works are classed there. There is a spot under this classification for autobiography (PT5834.F68 Z46) but the DS classification is probably more helpful.

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The paternity of Abraham Lincoln; was he the son of Thomas Lincoln? An essay on the chastity of Nancy Hanks by William E. Barton. (OCLC #882677)

The form of Lincoln’s heading on the bottom card is the current one; the form on the top card has already been modified once by hand, but not quite to the current form – the original form on the top card is not even in the current authority record. It does have a link to a similar heading, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) describing that role, though it is not for use as a subject.

Maintaining consistent name authority is much easier and less error-prone with a modern ILS. Always control your headings in OCLC when you can to help this process!

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Plutarchi Moralia / recensuerunt et emendaverunt W.R. Paton, M. Pohlenz, W. Sieveking. (OCLC #646754026)

This set (not a serial, even!) was labeled with very strange call numbers. Why the two years? Why split the enumeration?

The main class number PA3404 is now obsolete, a status you can identify by the parentheses around it in Classification Web and printed schedules. It is a class number associated to the particular printed series, “Bibliotheca Teubneriana”, which while very specific, does not seem as useful as the one associated with that work, PA4368. Using the class number for the work will put the set on the shelf other editions of Moralia and close to other works of Plutarch.

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Penser la laïcité / Catherine Kintzler. (OCLC #869720975)

After being identified as problems by our copy catalogers, non-rush books go to the problem shelf where they may sit for a couple of months before I address them.

This title had only a skimpy record in OCLC when the book arrived in February (no call number, no subjects), but between then and now, somebody (TZT? C3L? DEBBG?) has completed it. Thanks!

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Philo, with an English translation by F.H. Colson and G.H. Whitaker. (OCLC #3142478)

We own two full sets of this title (each with 10 main volumes + 2 supplements); one is an original printing (title page says 1929) and one is a reprint from the 1980’s. They were on separate records (with one set’s supplements each on their own records) and used different classifications and enumerations. Their content was the same (and copies similar enough to be on the same record) so I wanted to bring them together, both in the catalog and on the shelf.

I cataloged both sets on the same record, each with their own holdings record. I modified the call number on the reprint (adding ‘b’ to the end) so that each set would be filed together as a whole, and so that the volumes would not be flagged as duplicates.